Re: [Htmlparser-developer] Request for comments: Proposal for changes in HTMLParser API

[Somik R. <so...@ya...>]

Hi Holger,

>Finally you would get the results with:
>- java.util.List getResultList() that returns a List containing HTMLNode
objects
>Returning simply a List is good in my opinion since this integrates the
HTMLParser nicely into the standard Java collections
>framework. It also makes it future save for the later applicability of
Generics found in Java 1.5.

This is a good suggestion. But, the drawback of this approach is that we
have to keep casting to the objects we want. I feel there is a significant
performance improvement to be had, by creating our own "list" object. You
will find HTMLVector already in the source - but not yet integrated with the
code (that requires a bit of work), which addresses this issue. Would you
like to take that up ?

>The solution for retrieving results with getResultXXX() methods would also
allow to simply add some more and different result
>retriever methods, e.g.
>- org.htmlparser.util.HTMLEnumeration getResultHTMLEnumeration() or
>- org.htmlparser.util.HTMLTree getResultHTMLTree() that would retrieve an
(to be programmed) HTMLTree (similar to a w3c
>Document)

Getting the results from the parser is a very important area, and we've been
adding some visitors which we've found very useful. HTMLTree sounds really
interesting. It would be nice if you can also check out the existing
visitors.

Regards,
Somik
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