[Htmlparser-developer] Change request: TextExtractingVisitor

[Amol D. <Amo...@cc...>]

Hi,

IMO, the fields:

    private StringBuffer textAccumulator;
    private boolean preTagBeingProcessed;


in file org.htmlparser.visitors.TextExtractingVisitor should be
made protected or a protected accessors should be made available for
these fields. 

That would make it easier to extend from TextExtractingVisitor.

Currently extending from TextExtractingVisitor forces you to
reimplement all the
methods and redefine the private fields since the subclass methods
cannot get the 
reference to the fields.

On a related note, I have writen a simple adaptation of the
TextExtractingVisitor
for extracting strings from string nodes that match a particular
regular expression.
If deemed useful, it may be included in future distros. 

The file "RegexMatchingVisitor.java" is attached.

Regards,
~ amol