RE: [Classifier4j-devel] SimpleHTMLTokenizer should use decorator pattern

[Nick L. <nl...@es...>]

> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Now, SimpleHTMLTokenizer inherits from DefaultTokenizer. If I make a
> new ITokenizer implement, I have to rewrite a HTML tokenizer.
> 
> If SimpleHTMLTokenizer use decorator pattern, it can be re-used in
> other ITokenizer implements.
> 
> -------------------->     ITokenizer
> |                                 |            |
> --  SimpleHTMLTokenizer      DefaultTokenizer
> 
> 

Why would you want to use any of the functionality of SimpleHTMLTokenizer
without also using DefaultTokenizer?

SimpleHTMLTokenizer doesn't really do a great deal more than
DefaultTokenizer, and I would like to understand which parts of it you want
to reuse.

Nick