[Htmlparser-developer] Extracting a single purpose library

[Martin K. <Mar...@St...>]

Dear Html-Parser developers,

   my name is Martin Kersten and I am looking for a library doing 
HTML related conversions. Originally I started to refactor the HtmlUtils
class of the Spring framework. But thinking about it, it would be best
if such a capability (decode/encode strings from / to Html) would be
provided by a special and tiny library. Such a library would be a 
relief, I guess. Also I wouldn't like to invent the wheel, twice... .

Also by my own refactoring affords, I ended with a special class
encapuslating the named entity references and load it from file
(I used the http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html files).
I don't know if this efford is worth it but from an OOP stand point it 
looks nice :-).

Anyways, I would be happy if such a highly focused library would
be out there. 

So what do you think? Any chance that such a library can be created?


Cheers,

Martin (Kersten)

PS: I am not a Spring developer, I am just a Spring user who cares... . :-)