SQL Server and BI Tools: Remove HTML and XML Tags

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Remove HTML and XML Tags

select * , Left(Replace(Replace(Replace(Replace(Ltrim(tag),'<',''),'',''),'/',''),
Case when CHARINDEX('{0}',(Replace(Replace(Replace(Replace(ltrim(tag),'<',''),'',''),'/',''))) = 0
Then LEN(Replace(Replace(Replace(Replace(Ltrim(tag),'<',''),'',''),'/',''))
Else
CHARINDEX('{0}',(Replace(Replace(Replace(Replace(ltrim(tag),'<',''),'',''),'/','')))-1
END)
from TableName