[Htmlparser-developer] RE: [Htmlparser-user] version 1.5

[Alberto N. <alb...@ti...>]

All the following suggestions are already done by me.
I'd like to read your comments and maybe also improvement's ideas.
Waiting for your advises, I continue test activity.

I hope that all these improvements could make quick
the process of changing the strings after the parser have processed the url
stream.



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package org.htmlparser.util;
Class NodeList

I suggest to add two methods more:
1-
public void keepLeaves ()
	filter all nodes but leaves nodes.
	For example keepLeaves() applied to "<DIV>In The Middle<DIV>Hello
World!</DIV></DIV>"
	gives as result the removal of top node (containing "In The
Middle<DIV>Hello World!</DIV>")
	and the only element in the list will be the leaf node (containing "Hello
World!").

2-
public void keepTopLevel ()
filter all nodes but nodes of the top level.
	For example keepTopLevel() applied to "<DIV>In The Middle<DIV>Hello
World!</DIV></DIV>"
	gives as result the removal of leaf node (containing "Hello World!")
	and the only element in the list will be the top node (containing "In The
Middle<DIV>Hello World!</DIV>").




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package org.htmlparser.util;
Class ParserUtils

I suggest to add methods doing trim and split operations giving a string
input variable as parameter.
The trim and split operations have various methods that consider as trimming
and splitting delimiters:
spaces and tabs,
digits,
tags,
simple characters.

The use of this function could proficencly refine the text inside or outside
tags.



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Another interesting improvement is to add the following method:

public static Parser createParserParsingAnInputString (String input)
	throws ParserException, UnsupportedEncodingException

This method will create a Parser Object from an input string.
The input string is NOT the href of file or url in input but
it is the stream itself.
For example a significative input string could be:
"<DIV>Hello World!</DIV>".

This method could be added in Parser class or in both classes Parser and
ParserUtils classes.


Hope you like,
Alberto Nacher

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