output parsing in list

[CAAY]

hi

i need to catch all the text of 1 page, but i want html parser to output it in a list of Strings, not only on 1 String, like GetStrings() method does...

how can i do it ? is there some method to call or i need to modify some source code ?

thx for the help

[Derrick Oswald]

Can you not convert the string returned from getStrings() into a list by breaking it up at each newline?
Altering/rewriting the StringBean to return a list of strings would be a lot more work.

[CAAY]

Hi

thx for the quick reply !

i can split the string using "/n" but its not what i want.

if i have 1 section of the page with more then 2 lines, i want all this section in the same node, but spliting it with "/n" i will have same number of nodes then paragraphs.

for example :

<h2>DESCRIPTION :</h2>
<p>this subject need to ....</p>
<h2>OBJECTIVES</h2>
<p>u need to ...</p>
<p>also u have to ...</p>

parsing this i will have 1 String with :
DESCRIPTION :
this subject need to ....
OBJECTIVES
u need to ...
also u have to ...
and spliting it with "/n" i will have each line in a different String but what i want is to have the last 2 lines together in the same node...

dunno if im explaining fine, hope u can understand me, and sorry for my poor english

thx again

[Derrick Oswald]

Oh, you want to break the text at certain tags...

You can re-write the StringBean to do what you want,
but you may be better off just subclassing it and overriding the visitTag method
to inject special strings you can break-up the output with later.
Currently this method is...

    /**
     * Appends a NEWLINE to the output if the tag breaks flow, and
     * possibly sets the state of the PRE and SCRIPT flags.
     * @param tag The tag to examine.
     */
    public void visitTag (Tag tag)
    {
        String name;

        if (tag instanceof LinkTag)
            if (getLinks ())
            { // appends the link as text between angle brackets to the output.
                mBuffer.append ("<");
                mBuffer.append (((LinkTag)tag).getLink ());
                mBuffer.append (">");
            }
        name = tag.getTagName ();
        if (name.equalsIgnoreCase ("PRE"))
            mIsPre = true;
        else if (name.equalsIgnoreCase ("SCRIPT"))
            mIsScript = true;
        else if (name.equalsIgnoreCase ("STYLE"))
            mIsStyle = true;
        if (tag.breaksFlow ())
            carriageReturn ();
    }

What you might want is:

public class MyStringBean extends StringBean
{

    /**
     * Appends a NEWLINE to the output if the tag breaks flow, and
     * possibly sets the state of the PRE and SCRIPT flags.
     * @param tag The tag to examine.
     */
    public void visitTag (Tag tag)
    {
        String name;

        if (tag instanceof LinkTag)
            if (getLinks ())
            { // appends the link as text between angle brackets to the output.
                mBuffer.append ("<");
                mBuffer.append (((LinkTag)tag).getLink ());
                mBuffer.append (">");
            }
        name = tag.getTagName ();
        if (name.equalsIgnoreCase ("PRE"))
            mIsPre = true;
        else if (name.equalsIgnoreCase ("SCRIPT"))
            mIsScript = true;
        else if (name.equalsIgnoreCase ("STYLE"))
            mIsStyle = true;
if (tag instanceof HeadingTag)
    mBuffer.append ("{my special marker}");
else
        if (tag.breaksFlow ())
            carriageReturn ();
    }
}

Then you break the output from getStrings() at the "{my special marker}" locations.

[CAAY]

really thx for the help

it was useful, and im now having the output like i want.

thx again !