Re: [Htmlparser-user] HTML rendering

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

Ted,

I don't think HTML Parser is what you need.  It's primary use-case is 
programatic extraction of information from web pages, i.e. spidering, 
with some facilities for re-writing.
As far as I know, there isn't anyone using the HTML Parser as the 
parsing component of the JEditorPane, and I don't believe anyone has 
written a browser based on it.
You might want to try some of the java based browsers, e.g. shogun 
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/shogun>,  JXWB 
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/jxwb>, or others 
<http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=91> that 
purport to do what you want.

Derrick

Ted Byers wrote:

> I have read that the HTML parser that is used within JEditorPane is 
> seriously broken.  In reading the archive of this list, the impression 
> is created that using HTMLParser with JEditorPane is problematic at 
> best, although there seems to be little recent material on this issue.
>  
> HTMLParser comes highly recommended.  However, it does me no good if I 
> can't figure out how to get started in order to use it to render 
> generic web pages.  I have a need for a java component (perhaps an 
> applet, or an application that can be launched using webstart) that 
> will display web pages (most of my users will need read only access to 
> the documents rendered, but there is a second category of user that 
> needs read/write access to documents).  I do not need, or want, to 
> have to deal with examining the data parsed by the parser.  I really 
> don't want to write a class to render the output produced by 
> HTMLParser.  I just want to make a web page viewer (or, better, a web 
> browser that supports basic scripting using e.g. JScript) that uses 
> HTMLParser to make it more robust than the default parsed used in 
> JEditorPane.
>  
> On the face of it, none of the example applications show me how to do 
> this; although it is possible that I missed something.
>  
> To do what I need done, do I need anything else other than 
> HTMLParser?  Or can it be that HTMLParser includes functions to render 
> generic web pages on, e.g., a JFrame?  In either case, where can I 
> find an example program that shows me how to do what I need to do to 
> get started?
>  
> Once I have a start, the next phase will involve using a wysiwyg 
> editor web page and a servlet that uses HTMLparser to validate web 
> pages created using the wysiwyg editor web page, and send the user 
> intelligible error messages when the user tries to create something 
> HTMLParser doesn't understand.  Or maybe there is already something 
> out there that will do what I need to do (preferably open source).  
> Any ideas/recommendations?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Ted
>  
> R.E. (Ted) Byers, Ph.D., Ed.D.
> R & D Decision Support Software
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