I have a string which I need to send in an xml node to a third party application. That string is then parsed through a html parser over there. The string can have html, but problem occurs with non html tags. For example

```
<cfset str = "This mail was <b>sent</b> by Jen Myke <jmyke@mail.com> on June 20th.<br/> Click on <a href='http://google.com'>this link</a> for more information.">

```

There can be non-utf characters too in the string, which also cause issues but I found a old blog post which can help remove non-utf.

```
<cfset str = reReplace(str, "[^\x20-\x7E]", "", "ALL")>

```

But I am unable to figure out how I can remove html look alikes.