Is there an easy way to display a simple plaintext summary of a HTML document or section thereof, ignoring tags, scripts, etc? You can see something like what I mean at: Recently Active 'r' Questions - Stack Overflow where each question has a couple of lines displayed.
The context is I'm working with emails in an Outlook message folder, and I'd like to be able to display a list of emails. These will usually be HTML-formatted, but rather than just print a mess of tags, I'd like to show something more meaningful.