A swift string extension to add strip html method to native string

String+StripHTML.swift

//
//  String+StripHtml.swift

import Foundation

class StringStripHTMLParserDelegate: NSObject, NSXMLParserDelegate{
  var strings : [String] = []

  func parser(parser: NSXMLParser!, foundCharacters string: String!) {
    self.strings.append(string)
  }
  
  func getFoundChars() -> String{
    let arr = self.strings as NSArray
    return arr.componentsJoinedByString("") as String
  }
}

extension String{
  func stripHTML() -> String{
    let _self = self as NSString
    var string = _self.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("&", withString: "&")
    string = NSString(format: "<root>%@</root>", string)
    
    let encoding = string.fastestEncoding
    var data = string.dataUsingEncoding(encoding, allowLossyConversion: false)
    var parser = NSXMLParser(data: data)
    var parsed = StringStripHTMLParserDelegate()
    parser.delegate = parsed
    parser.parse()
    
    string = parsed.getFoundChars()
    
    return string;
  }
}