Merge pull request #289 from mjtamlyn/slugify-real-function

@stringfilter

def removetags(value, tags):

    """Removes a space separated list of [X]HTML tags from the output."""

    tags = [re.escape(tag) for tag in tags.split()]

    tags_re = '(%s)' % '|'.join(tags)

    starttag_re = re.compile(r'<%s(/?>|(\s+[^>]*>))' % tags_re, re.U)

    endtag_re = re.compile('</%s>' % tags_re)

    value = starttag_re.sub('', value)

    value = endtag_re.sub('', value)

    return value

    from django.utils.html import remove_tags

    return remove_tags(value, tags)

@register.filter(is_safe=True)

@stringfilter