Stripping HTML with nVelocity?

[mwolf]

Is it possible to use velocity to strip HTML tags? I'm trying to remove HTML tags from $Product.Description on 'Show Product 1.htm' and I've tried a number of different ways and it doesn't seem to be working.

Neither of these work:

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$Product.Description.Replace("</?[^>]+/?>", "");
$Product.Description.replaceAll("</?[^>]+/?>", "");

Any other suggestions?

[jmestep]

Other suggestions:
You might have to move some of the code from a scriplet into a conlib where you can use Able's StringHelper.StripHtml. Or maybe a class file, like in the W2MSEOHelper.cs.

[mazhar]

I think Judy's approach is more appropriate. NVelocity should be only used for data display formatting. If you use it frequently for complex programming purpose it can slow down the pages.