Strips out the HTML tags from the inputted text, returning the basic
    text.  This algorightm was found on
    [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/753052/strip-html-from-strings-in-python StackOverflow].
    
    :param      html | <str>
    
    :return     <str>

def stripHtml(html, joiner=''):
    """
    Strips out the HTML tags from the inputted text, returning the basic
    text.  This algorightm was found on
    [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/753052/strip-html-from-strings-in-python StackOverflow].
    
    :param      html | <str>
    
    :return     <str>
    """
    stripper = HTMLStripper()
    stripper.feed(html.replace('<br>', '\n').replace('<br/>', '\n'))
    return stripper.text(joiner)