1- right click the XML file
2- Choose Edit (with Notepad for example)
3- When the file is opened, choose "File" | Save as
4- In the File name field change the file extension into ".html"
5- Save the file (will be saved as a webpage)
6- Open the web page,
you'll find the pure text with the XML tags and more over with format
7- In this way you can copy this text and paste it in a word file for example to be able to deal with the text alone
Best regards
Your Arabic Translation Team
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FarkasAndras Hungary Local time: 21:06 English to Hungarian + ...
Here's one
Nov 2, 2010
barryw wrote:
dear all,
is there any one who knows how to extract text (plain text) from xml files? any hany software?
thank you!
Unzip, move your file to the tag_stripper folder and rename it to .html. Double click the .bat and follow the instructions. It's a bit crude but it should work... check the results of course, though.
The end result should be pretty much the same as opening the file in a browser and copying the content to a txt, but this solution will work with large files as well, while your browser definitely won't open a 50+ MB file for you.
Also, I have no idea why Arabic Translation Team posted such a convoluted solution. If you want to open the file in your browser, right click it, choose Open with... and pick the browser from the list. No need to change the extension, especially not by opening the file in another program first. If the browser is not on the "open with" list, choose "other program" and pick the browser from there.
The file extension doesn't change the type of the file ("save it as a webpage"). It's just an indication to the OS; it tells the OS what software to open the file with by default. You can easily override that default through the right-click local menu.
[Edited at 2010-11-02 20:48 GMT]
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FarkasAndras Hungary Local time: 21:06 English to Hungarian + ...
OS
Nov 2, 2010
Note: the above solution only woks on Windows computers. Barryw failed to specify the OS he uses, so I assume it's some flavour of Windows.
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barryw Hong Kong Local time: 03:06 Member (2007) English to Chinese + ...
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Thanks very much for your suggestions.
Nov 3, 2010
Dear Arabic Translation Team and FarkasAndras,
Thanks very much for your suggestions.
Arabic Translation Team's solution works well in my case! quite a simple solution.
Thanks FarkasAndras for giving a detailed suggestion, though I still haven't time to try your link, but I believe it will be a good fix for dealing with large size files. Yet, regarding your second suggestion by opening the xml files directly via "Open with>browser" command, it seems it doesn't work in my case. The firefox just shows all the tags, while IE simply cannot open the xml file. Maybe I mess up something?
Anyway, thank you all for your contributions.
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Dawid Wietrzyk Poland Local time: 21:06 Polish to English + ...
It works..
Jan 23
FarkasAndras - I know the post is kind of old, but your script worked perfect for me, just what I needed. Thank you.
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FarkasAndras Hungary Local time: 21:06 English to Hungarian + ...
You're welcome
Jan 24
Dawid Wietrzyk wrote:
FarkasAndras - I know the post is kind of old, but your script worked perfect for me, just what I needed. Thank you.
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