org.wandora.utils

Class HTMLEntitiesCoder

java.lang.Object

org.wandora.utils.HTMLEntitiesCoder

public class HTMLEntitiesCoder
extends java.lang.Object

This class has mappings from html entities to characters and vica versa as specified in http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html . There are also methods to encode and decode html entities in a text.

Author:

olli

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static java.util.Map	entitiesTable Maps html entities to characters.
static java.util.Map	inverseTable The inverse of table entitiesTable.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
HTMLEntitiesCoder() Creates a new instance of HTMLEntitiesCoder

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static java.lang.String	decode(java.lang.String htmlText) Decodes html entities in the text.
static java.lang.String	encode(java.lang.String text)
static java.lang.String	encode(java.lang.String text, boolean trytable) Encodes all characters in the text with character code outside range 32 to 127 (inclusive) and the ampersand and less-than characters.
private static int	getNumber(java.lang.String ent)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

entitiesTable

public static final java.util.Map entitiesTable

Maps html entities to characters. The keyes are html entities without the ampersand and semicolon. Values are Character objects. For example there is a mapping from the String "nbsp" to Character with char code 160.

inverseTable

public static final java.util.Map inverseTable

The inverse of table entitiesTable.

Constructor Detail

HTMLEntitiesCoder

public HTMLEntitiesCoder()

Creates a new instance of HTMLEntitiesCoder

Method Detail

encode

public static java.lang.String encode(java.lang.String text)

encode

public static java.lang.String encode(java.lang.String text,
                                      boolean trytable)

Encodes all characters in the text with character code outside range 32 to 127 (inclusive) and the ampersand and less-than characters. If trytable is true, tries to find a html entity from the entities table. If it is false or no suitable entity is found, uses an entity of the form "&#xxx;" where xxx is the character code.

getNumber

private static int getNumber(java.lang.String ent)

decode

public static java.lang.String decode(java.lang.String htmlText)

Decodes html entities in the text.