>>>In search engines across the net, you'll see that the result usually show a summary of the pages. However, no HTML code is part of the text. I was wondering if such a function exists so I could use it from Visual FoxPro.
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>>You can use the innerText object of the DOM to get rid of HTML formatting.
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>Do you know another approach?

How about this from wwUtils:

http://www.west-wind.com/webconnection/docs/wwutilsstriphtml.htm