WordPress Remove Excerpt Filters

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I’m trying to strip the surrounding tags that are put out by default for the_excerpt();

I’ve tried the following…

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<?php remove_filter('the_excerpt', 'wpautop'); ?>
<p class='test'><?php the_excerpt(); ?></p>

and I’ve tried… 

<?php $formatted = remove_all_filters('the_excerpt', the_excerpt()); ?>
<p class='test'><?php echo $formatted ?></p>

I’m looking to produce this… 

<p class='test'>the excerpt text <a href='http://continuereadinglink'>etc.</a></p>

But instead WordPress outputs this… 

<p class='test'></p>
<p class='default-align'>the excerpt text <a href='http://continuereadinglink'>etc.</a></p>

I have actually found a workaround here http://aaronrussell.co.uk/legacy/improving-wordpress-the_excerpt/, but it basically involves replacing the excerpt function, and I would rather avoid this since I just want to strip the filters out.

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  1. HTML paragraph tags don’t support nested structure. Try to surround the excerpt with block elements such as DIV

    You may try this option:

    <p class="test"><?php echo strip_tags(get_the_excerpt()) ?></p>