How would you strip HTML tags in PostgreSQL such that the data inside the tags is preserved?
I found some solutions by googling it but they were striping the text between the tags too!
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How would you strip HTML tags in PostgreSQL such that the data inside the tags is preserved?
I found some solutions by googling it but they were striping the text between the tags too!
Any solution performed in the RDBMS is going to involve either string handling or regexes: to my knowledge there is NO way to manipulate HTML in a standards-compliant, safe way in the database. To reiterate, what you are asking for is very, VERY unsafe.
A much better option is to do this in your application. This is application logic, and NOT the job or concern of your storage layer.
A great way to do this (in PHP, at least) would be HTML purifier. Don’t do this in JavaScript, the user can tamper with it very easily.