title: Stripping HTML tags in Java
body: <p>Is there an existing Java library which provides a method to strip all HTML tags from a String? I'm looking for something equivalent to the <code>strip_tags</code> function in PHP.  </p>
  
  <p>I know that I can use a regex as described in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44078/strip-all-html-tags-except-links">this Stackoverflow question</a>, however I was curious if there may already be a <code>stripTags()</code> method floating around somewhere in the Apache Commons library that can be used.</p>