g.powers (10/21/2016)
I recently had the same requirement and wrote a function which strips HTML tags and entities regardless of any additional information. I posted the code here at Stack OverflowI hope it is of help to someone.
You should look at the solutions posted in this thread. Yours is a good solution but the performance is going to be pretty painful. You have a scalar function with a while loop. The solutions posted here are set based and will be crazy fast in comparison.
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