Code Dump: Stripping out HTML

Two solutions for this seam to pop up - Regex and using HTMLEditorKit. The first is very broken and can not handle escape characters, the latter works well but does not maintain formatting. So here is my expanded version which also breaks when it encounters a tag that breaks the flow.

package ihaztehcodez.utils;
 
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collection;
 
import javax.swing.text.MutableAttributeSet;
import javax.swing.text.html.HTML;
import javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit;
import javax.swing.text.html.parser.ParserDelegator;
 
/** Strips HTML from text. 
 * 
 * @author mlk
 *
 */
public final class StripHtml {
 
 /** Utility class. */
 private StripHtml() { }
 
 /** Strips HTML from the content given.
  * 
  * @param value The string to strip.
  * @return A textual representation.
  */
 public static String stripped(final String value) {
  try {
   return stripped(new StringReader(value));
  } catch(final IOException ioe) {
   // This should never happen as the StringReader can not throw an IOE.
   throw new RuntimeException(ioe);
  }
 
 }
 
 /** Strips HTML from the content given.
  * 
  * @param value The content to strip.
  * @return A textual representation.
  */
 public static String stripped(final Reader value) throws IOException {
  ParserDelegator delegator = new ParserDelegator();
  StripOMatic matic = new StripOMatic();
  delegator.parse(value, matic, true);
 
  return matic.toString();
 }
 
 /** Read in the text file and adds a new line when a breaking tag is encountered.
  * 
  * @author Michael Lee
  *
  */
 private static class StripOMatic extends HTMLEditorKit.ParserCallback {
  /** The string value. */
  private final StringBuilder value = new StringBuilder();
  /** Some tags should be ignored. */
  private static Collection<HTML.Tag> ignore = Arrays.asList(HTML.Tag.HTML, 
    HTML.Tag.BODY, HTML.Tag.HEAD);
 
  /** If the tag breaks the flow then add a new line, otherwise ignore.
   * {@inheritDoc} 
   */
  public void handleStartTag(final HTML.Tag t, final MutableAttributeSet a, final int pos) {
   if (ignore.contains(t)) {
    return;
   }
   if (t.breaksFlow()) {
    value.append("\n");
   }
  }
 
  /** Delegates to handleStartTag.
   * {@inheritDoc} 
   */
  public void handleSimpleTag(final HTML.Tag t, final MutableAttributeSet a, final int pos) {
   handleStartTag(t, a, pos);
  }
 
  /** Adds the following chunk of text.
   * 
   * {@inheritDoc}
   */
  public void handleText(final char[] text, final int pos) {
   value.append(text);
  }
 
  /** @return The text version of the data parsed so far. */
  public String toString() {
   return value.toString();
  }
 }
}