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HTML Strip Char Filter

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HTML Strip Char Filter

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The html_strip character filter strips HTML elements from the text and replaces HTML entities with their decoded value (e.g. replacing & with &).

Example output

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POST _analyze
{
  "tokenizer":      "keyword", 
  "char_filter":  [ "html_strip" ],
  "text": "<p>I&apos;m so <b>happy</b>!</p>"
}

The keyword tokenizer returns a single term.

The above example returns the term:

[ \nI'm so happy!\n ]

The same example with the standard tokenizer would return the following terms:

[ I'm, so, happy ]

Configuration

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The html_strip character filter accepts the following parameter:

escaped_tags

An array of HTML tags which should not be stripped from the original text.

Example configuration

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In this example, we configure the html_strip character filter to leave <b> tags in place:

PUT my_index
{
  "settings": {
    "analysis": {
      "analyzer": {
        "my_analyzer": {
          "tokenizer": "keyword",
          "char_filter": ["my_char_filter"]
        }
      },
      "char_filter": {
        "my_char_filter": {
          "type": "html_strip",
          "escaped_tags": ["b"]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

POST my_index/_analyze
{
  "analyzer": "my_analyzer",
  "text": "<p>I&apos;m so <b>happy</b>!</p>"
}

The above example produces the following term:

[ \nI'm so <b>happy</b>!\n ]

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