Snoopy::_striptext

	function _striptext($document)
	{

		// I didn't use preg eval (//e) since that is only available in PHP 4.0.
		// so, list your entities one by one here. I included some of the
		// more common ones.

		$search = array("'<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>'si",	// strip out javascript
						"'<[\/\!]*?[^<>]*?>'si",			// strip out html tags
						"'([\r\n])[\s]+'",					// strip out white space
						"'&(quot|#34|#034|#x22);'i",		// replace html entities
						"'&(amp|#38|#038|#x26);'i",			// added hexadecimal values
						"'&(lt|#60|#060|#x3c);'i",
						"'&(gt|#62|#062|#x3e);'i",
						"'&(nbsp|#160|#xa0);'i",
						"'&(iexcl|#161);'i",
						"'&(cent|#162);'i",
						"'&(pound|#163);'i",
						"'&(copy|#169);'i",
						"'&(reg|#174);'i",
						"'&(deg|#176);'i",
						"'&(#39|#039|#x27);'",
						"'&(euro|#8364);'i",				// europe
						"'&a(uml|UML);'",					// german
						"'&o(uml|UML);'",
						"'&u(uml|UML);'",
						"'&A(uml|UML);'",
						"'&O(uml|UML);'",
						"'&U(uml|UML);'",
						"'&szlig;'i",
						);
		$replace = array(	"",
							"",
							"\\1",
							"\"",
							"&",
							"<",
							">",
							" ",
							chr(161),
							chr(162),
							chr(163),
							chr(169),
							chr(174),
							chr(176),
							chr(39),
							chr(128),
							chr(0xE4), // ANSI &auml;
							chr(0xF6), // ANSI &ouml;
							chr(0xFC), // ANSI &uuml;
							chr(0xC4), // ANSI &Auml;
							chr(0xD6), // ANSI &Ouml;
							chr(0xDC), // ANSI &Uuml;
							chr(0xDF), // ANSI &szlig;
						);

		$text = preg_replace($search,$replace,$document);

		return $text;
	}