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Asked: 2026-06-02T03:31:26+00:00

I have this function: CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[udf_StripHTML] (@HTMLText VARCHAR(MAX)) RETURNS VARCHAR(MAX) AS BEGIN DECLARE

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I have this function:

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[udf_StripHTML]
(@HTMLText VARCHAR(MAX))
RETURNS VARCHAR(MAX)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @Start INT
DECLARE @End INT
DECLARE @Length INT
SET @Start = CHARINDEX('<',@HTMLText)
SET @End = CHARINDEX('>',@HTMLText,CHARINDEX('<',@HTMLText))
SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
WHILE @Start > 0
AND @End > 0
AND @Length > 0
BEGIN
SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText,@Start,@Length,'')
SET @Start = CHARINDEX('<',@HTMLText)
SET @End = CHARINDEX('>',@HTMLText,CHARINDEX('<',@HTMLText))
SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
END
RETURN LTRIM(RTRIM(@HTMLText))
END

I need to strip everything EXCEPT <em> and <strong> tags.

Thank you

Thomas

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  1. Editorial Team

    xslt transformation via clr function (eg, the one from the MDS assembly)

    Update

    Here’s the answer using the XSLT transformation approach: How to remove all tags except for some using Nokogiri

    Update 2

    Then the only option left is to use regular expressions. Again via CLR function.

    Strip all HTML tags except links

    Installation of the MDS assembly

    Deploy SQL 2008 R2 MDS Functions without MDS

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