Converting HTML Text to Markdown

Question

I have an html Text which we get from rich text editor and where I need to convert that rich text to markdown text

for ex :

rich text return

<b> strong </b>
    to 
**strong**

Can any one help me in Android

Gowthaman M · Answer 1 · 2018-02-16T11:35:22.957

you can also load from an HTML string:

 String summary = "<html><body>You scored <b>192</b> points.</body></html>";
 webview.loadData(summary, "text/html", null);

(or)

For example (< Android Nougat):

myTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<h2>Title</h2><br><p>Description here</p>"));

For example (>= Android Nougat):

myTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<h2>Title</h2><br><p>Description here</p>", Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_COMPACT));

My suggestion is better to use webview.because table tags and some more tags are not showing in Textview... Webview doc

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 16 '18 at 11:58

you can use XSLT for converting html to markdown in java android. here is the example to use in Android.

 void test(String theHTML)
{
    File xsltFile = new File("mardownXSLT.xslt");

    Source xmlSource = new StreamSource(new StringReader(theHTML));
    Source xsltSource = new StreamSource(xsltFile);

    TransformerFactory transFact =
            TransformerFactory.newInstance();
    Transformer trans = transFact.newTransformer(xsltSource);

    StringWriter result = new StringWriter();
    trans.transform(xmlSource, new StreamResult(result));
}

@Anbu `result.toString()` is the Converted String – lovestackh343 Mar 12 '19 at 03:34 — lovestackh343, Mar 12 '19 at 03:34

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 24 '20 at 06:59

You can use the remark library (the download on the page is broken but it's also available on maven central) which also supports GitHub and Multimarkdown flavored markdown. The code could look as follows:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    final String html = "<b>Foo</b>";
    final Remark remark = new com.overzealous.remark.Remark(com.overzealous.remark.Options.github()); // or Options.markdown() or Options.multiMarkdown()
    remark.setCleanedHtmlEchoed(false);
    System.out.println(remark.convert(html));
}

Output: **Foo**

score -1 · Answer 4 · edited Feb 16 '18 at 12:31

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Try this code

TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView);
String htmlText = "<b> strong </b>";
textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(htmlText).toString());

edited Feb 16 '18 at 12:31

Gowthaman M

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answered Feb 16 '18 at 11:30

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Please Read the above question and Answer I was asking the html text to markdown not to render it. – Anbu Feb 19 '18 at 05:40

Converting HTML Text to Markdown

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