Re: [Htmlparser-developer] Extracting a single purpose library

[Derrick O. <Der...@Ro...>]

Martin,

HTML Parser has a similar class as well... 
org.htmlparser.util.Translate.java:
  
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/htmlparser/htmlparser/src/org/htmlparser/util/Translate.java?view=markup

This file was arrived at via a similar mechanism to your own. It's not 
stand-alone, relying on a sort utility, to avoid two copies of each 
reference in the class, and two reference classes, for a total of about 
5 classes.

There was a patch provided by *Karsten Pawlik* that loaded the table 
from a resource:
  
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=897297&group_id=24399&atid=381401
but this was never integrated.

This could be broken out into a separate jar. Is that what you are 
suggesting?

Derrick

Martin Kersten wrote:

> 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... 
> . :-)
>