[Zope] Fighting htmllib in external method

10 Oct 2000

      Howdy Zopsters,

I want to catalog some html files but I want to strip the html tags out.
htmlparser does a good job of that, but when I try to acces that from an
external method, I run into trouble.

import htmllib
import formatter

def index(self, html):
    fmtr = formatter.AbstractFormatter(formatter.DumbWriter(file))
    p = htmllib.HTMLParser(fmtr)
    return p.feed(html)

Since the DumbWriter uses stdout, this returns None.  When I try to write
to a temporary file, or pipe I get 'bad file descriptor' errors because of
the way external method function I guess.  Any help would really be
appreciated.

All my best,

Jason Spisak
444@hiretechs.com