Do note, however, that if all you do is strip out the HTML tags, the resulting text may end up being formatted in a less that easily readable format. Depending on the source mark-up, it might come out as:
Four
score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon
this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
And just imagine how tables might end up looking. 🆒
