Development PHP: Remove MS Word formatting from HTML

I am using FCKEditor in a bespoke CMS.
The users are insistent on copy/pasting from Word, and won't use the built in Paste-from-Word feature.

So I thought I could simply remove the <span> and <font> tags from the saved HTML before displaying it.

I have been trying the strip_selected_tags() function at http://uk.php.net/strip-tags but this often seems to completely remove all traces of the article, rather than just removing the offending tags.

I can only safely remove <font> tags, and hopefully <span> tags, and need to leave all other formatting.

Any ideas?

 

why not do some form of reading in each line, then using str_replace to remove the tags?

ugly though...

 

it looks like that's the basic idea behind the function on the above-linked page, but perhaps there's a bug in it.

I'm hoping that someone here will have a brainwave, and think of another way to remove the nasty tags.

PS - christmas av still?!

 

regular expression replace?

 

I found a new one yesterday, been too lazy to upload it.

 

I came here to post this

 

You could run it through tidy if you have it installed.