/**
* strips a subset of HTML that tends to appear in descriptions generated by Groundspeak Builder
*/
public static String removeHtml(String s) {
if (s == null) return "";
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(s.length());
replace(s, "<BR>", "\n", sb);
replace(sb.toString(), " ", " ", sb);
replace(sb.toString(), "<", "<", sb);
replace(sb.toString(), ">", ">", sb);
replace(sb.toString(), "&", "&", sb);
return sb.toString();
}
private static void replace(String source, String pattern, String replace, StringBuffer builder) {
int pos = 0;
int pl = pattern.length();
builder.delete(0, builder.length());
while (pos < source.length()) {
int np = source.indexOf(pattern, pos);
if (np == -1) break;
builder.append(source.substring(pos, np));
builder.append(replace);
pos = np + pl;
}
builder.append(source.substring(pos));
}