manipulating texts that contain HTML tags

[elck]

Hello,

I'm trying to write automated page-makeup and therefore I need to be able to count the number of words in a text that countains html tags.

I want to split up the text into columns, but, suppose the break occurs in the middle of '<b>this ^ bold tekst</b>', then I would run the risk of having a large part of the page in bold if I forgot the put a closing </b> after 'this'

That's just one problem.
I am not asking you to write this for me, I just wonder if someone has done work on this before and can give me some hints.

 

[yourkeylady]

I know how to write this in perl, maybe someone here can translate it to php. Put the html content into $page

$page = split(/>/,$page);
#Then with regex
foreach(@page){s/<.*//;}
$page = join(' ',@page);
@page = split(/\s*/,$page);

not tested, but it's a start.
I'm just learning php and am sure there is a similar functionality. Vooala! you should have the word count.

Thanks
Tricia