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**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 28, 2017, 8:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-the-html-stripped-version-of-a-document-in-elasticsearch/98519 "2017-08-28T08:55:56Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Melvyn\_Peignon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Melvyn_Peignon)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 8:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-the-html-stripped-version-of-a-document-in-elasticsearch/98519/1 "2017-08-28T08:55:57Z")
Hi!
I have a piece of text, let's say:
`"
台灣人，奧運直播，使用PPStream，(PPS網路電視)，觀看同步奧運實況!"`
I succeed to index this text without the html tags, using "strip\_html". Now I'm trying to **store** this text without the HTML tags:
```
PUT test
{
"settings" : {
"index" : {
"number_of_shards" : 1,
"number_of_replicas" : 0
},
"analysis": {
"analyzer": {
"ch_analyzer": {
"tokenizer": "icu_tokenizer",
"char_filter": ["html_strip"]
}
}
}
},
"mappings": {
"qa": {
"properties": {
"comment_desc": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "ch_analyzer"
},
"article_title": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "ch_analyzer"
},
"article_desc": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "ch_analyzer"
}
}
},
"sport": {
"properties": {
"title": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "ch_analyzer"
},
"content": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "ch_analyzer"
}
}
}
}
}
```
This is my mappings and settings. What should I change to be able to store this text without its HTML tags? Is that possible? Should I preprocess my document beforehand?
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**Author:**  [@Mike.Barretta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mike.Barretta)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 11:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-the-html-stripped-version-of-a-document-in-elasticsearch/98519/2 "2017-08-28T23:36:16Z")
@Melvyn_Peignon as far as I know, the `html_strip` char filter is indeed removing those tags prior to indexing, so that you are _not_ storing them.
Do you see those HTML tags coming back from a query?
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**Author:**  [@Melvyn\_Peignon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Melvyn_Peignon)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 5:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-the-html-stripped-version-of-a-document-in-elasticsearch/98519/3 "2017-08-29T05:58:26Z")
@Mike.Barretta from what I understood I am _not Indexing_ the HTML tags in my inverted index, but I _am storing_ documents with the HTML tags. I made a little example that is easily reproducible:
```
PUT test
{
"settings" : {
"index" : {
"number_of_shards" : 1,
"number_of_replicas" : 0
},
"analysis": {
"analyzer": {
"ch_analyzer": {
"tokenizer": "standard",
"char_filter": ["html_strip"]
}
}
}
},
"mappings": {
"sport": {
"properties": {
"title": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "ch_analyzer",
"store": true
}
}
}
}
}
```
Now you can add a document that contain some HTML tags
```
PUT test/sport/0
{
"title": "A little test just for testing
"
}
```
I cannot search this document using HTML tags (which is great):
```
GET test/sport/_search
{
"query": {
"match": {
"title": "div"
}
}
}
```
Return me:
```
{
"took": 27,
"timed_out": false,
"_shards": {
"total": 1,
"successful": 1,
"failed": 0
},
"hits": {
"total": 0,
"max_score": null,
"hits": []
}
}
```
But I cannot retrieve my document without the HTML:
```
GET test/sport/_search
{
"stored_fields": "title"
}
```
Which return me:
```
{
"took": 1,
"timed_out": false,
"_shards": {
"total": 1,
"successful": 1,
"failed": 0
},
"hits": {
"total": 1,
"max_score": 1,
"hits": [
{
"_index": "test",
"_type": "sport",
"_id": "0",
"_score": 1,
"fields": {
"title": [
"A little test just for testing
"
]
}
}
]
}
}
```
You can see that the document still contains the HTML tags.
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**Author:**  [@Mike.Barretta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mike.Barretta)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-the-html-stripped-version-of-a-document-in-elasticsearch/98519/4 "2017-08-29T13:16:24Z")
@Melvyn_Peignon I see, I'm sorry - missed the distinction you were making.
So no, if you elect to store the field (`stored:true` or by default in `_source` if not disabled), Elasticsearch stores the "raw" value, not the value post-analyzer. If you want the raw stored value to not include HTML tags, you'll need to remove them before you put them into Elasticsearch. That said, you could probably hack together a [scripted field](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-request-script-fields.html) (which can be stored) that removes the tags, but I wouldn't recommend it.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-the-html-stripped-version-of-a-document-in-elasticsearch/98519/5 "2017-09-26T13:16:29Z")
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