Remove HTML from string

Question

I am trying to clear the HTML coding from my RSS feed. I can not work out how to set the below to take out the HTML encoding.

var rssFeed = XElement.Parse(e.Result);

var currentFeed = this.DataContext as app.ViewModels.FeedViewModel;
var items = from item in rssFeed.Descendants("item")                            
            select new ATP_Tennis_App.ViewModels.FeedItemViewModel()
            {

                Title = item.Element("title").Value,
                DatePublished = DateTime.Parse(item.Element("pubDate").Value),
                Url = item.Element("link").Value,
                Description = item.Element("description").Value
            };

foreach (var item in items)
    currentFeed.Items.Add(item);

Answer 1

Just use the following code:

var withHtml = "<p>hello <b>there</b></p>";
var withoutHtml = Regex.Replace(withHtml, "<.+?>", string.Empty);

This will clean the html leaving only the text, so "hello there"

So, you can just copy and use this function:

string RemoveHtmlTags(string html) {
    return Regex.Replace(html, "<.+?>", string.Empty);
}

Your code will look something like this:

var rssFeed = XElement.Parse(e.Result);
var currentFeed = this.DataContext as app.ViewModels.FeedViewModel;
var items = from item in rssFeed.Descendants("item")                            
            select new ATP_Tennis_App.ViewModels.FeedItemViewModel()
            {

                Title = RemoveHtmlTags(item.Element("title").Value),
                DatePublished = DateTime.Parse(item.Element("pubDate").Value),
                Url = item.Element("link").Value,
                Description = RemoveHtml(item.Element("description").Value)
            };