/**
* Markup Stripping Utility for Dependency Analysis Text Processing
*
* This utility function removes Markdown and HTML syntax from text content in Jira issues,
* allowing for cleaner text analysis when searching for dependencies and relationships.
* By stripping formatting elements, it enables more accurate keyword matching and content
* analysis while preventing false positives from markup syntax characters.
*/
export function stripMarkup(text: string): string {
if (!text) {
return ''
}
// Remove HTML tags
let stripped = text.replace(/<[^>]+>/g, ' ')
// Remove Markdown formatting
stripped = stripped.replace(/[*_~`#]+/g, '')
return stripped.trim()
}
