Declare an integer variable, increment it each time that you find a <table>
tag, decrement when you find a </table>. Only output a <br> if the variable is
zero. This will correctly handle nested tables. Depending on the source of
your HTML, you may need to ensure that <TABLE> is also handled - HTML is not
case sensitive so your code should not be either.

Incidentally, you example seems to have <br/> rather than <br>.

HTH
John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vidar Langberget" <vidar@(protected)>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 4:22 PM
I know how to parse carriage returns and replace it with <br>, but I need a
bit more advanced logic. The problem is that the text I need to parse
contains both carriage returns and some basic html. For example headings use
<h2>Heading</h2> and there are a few html tables as well. The tables are the
biggest problem. The replace method I've written puts <br> several places
inside the table html code, so it looks horrible in a browser. This is a
small example:
<table cellpadding="2" align="Center"><br/> <tbody><br/> <tr
valign="Top"><br/> <td valign="Top"><br/> <div align="Left"> <h6>
Architecture:</h6><br/> </div><br/> </td><br/> <td valign="Top"><h6>
K7</h6><br/> </td><br/> <td valign="Top"><h6> P6</h6><br/> </td><br/>
</tr><br/> <tr valign="Top"><br/> <td valign="Top"><p><b> Cache block
size:</b></p><br/> </td><br/> <td valign="Top"><p> 64 Bytes<br/> </td><br/>
<td valign="Top"><p> 32 Bytes<br/> </td><br/> </tr><br>
As you can imagine I need to improve my parsing method to skip adding <br>
inside <table and </table>.
Any idea how I can do this?
Also, the heading is a problem. The whole text is put inside <p></p> and it
works as long as there is no html in the text. But after a heading using
<h2> for example, the rest of the text is rendered using standard text as
defined in the browser, and not as <p> is defined in my stylesheet. What I
need to do is add a <p> tag to the text after a blank line UNLESS the next
line is a heading. Suggestions on how to handle this?
Any help appreciated!

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