org.clapper.util.text
Class HTMLUtil

java.lang.Object
  org.clapper.util.text.HTMLUtil

Deprecated. Moved to org.clapper.util.html package

public final class HTMLUtil
extends java.lang.Object

Static class containing miscellaneous HTML-related utility methods.

Version:

$Revision: 6735 $

Author:

Copyright © 2004-2007 Brian M. Clapper

Method Summary

static java.lang.String	convertCharacterEntities(java.lang.String s) Deprecated. Use HTMLUtil.convertCharacterEntities(java.lang.String)
static java.lang.String	makeCharacterEntities(java.lang.String s) Deprecated. Use HTMLUtil.makeCharacterEntities(java.lang.String)
static java.lang.String	stripHTMLTags(java.lang.String s) Deprecated. Use HTMLUtil.stripHTMLTags(java.lang.String)
static java.lang.String	textFromHTML(java.lang.String s) Deprecated. Use HTMLUtil.makeCharacterEntities(java.lang.String)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

stripHTMLTags

public static java.lang.String stripHTMLTags(java.lang.String s)

Deprecated. Use HTMLUtil.stripHTMLTags(java.lang.String)

Removes all HTML element tags from a string, leaving just the character data. This method does not touch any inline HTML character entity codes. Use convertCharacterEntities() to convert HTML character entity codes.

Parameters:

s - the string to adjust

Returns:

the resulting, possibly modified, string

See Also:

convertCharacterEntities(java.lang.String)

convertCharacterEntities

public static java.lang.String convertCharacterEntities(java.lang.String s)

Deprecated. Use HTMLUtil.convertCharacterEntities(java.lang.String)

Converts all inline HTML character entities (c.f., http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html) to their Unicode character counterparts, if possible.

Parameters:

s - the string to convert

Returns:

the resulting, possibly modified, string

See Also:

stripHTMLTags(java.lang.String), makeCharacterEntities(java.lang.String)

makeCharacterEntities

public static java.lang.String makeCharacterEntities(java.lang.String s)

Deprecated. Use HTMLUtil.makeCharacterEntities(java.lang.String)

Converts appropriate Unicode characters to their HTML character entity counterparts (c.f., http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html).

Parameters:

s - the string to convert

Returns:

the resulting, possibly modified, string

See Also:

stripHTMLTags(java.lang.String), convertCharacterEntities(java.lang.String)

textFromHTML

public static java.lang.String textFromHTML(java.lang.String s)

Deprecated. Use HTMLUtil.makeCharacterEntities(java.lang.String)

Convenience method to convert embedded HTML to text. This method:

• Strips embedded HTML tags via a call to #stripHTMLTags()
• Uses convertCharacterEntities() to convert HTML entity codes to appropriate Unicode characters.
• Converts certain Unicode characters in a string to plain text sequences.

Parameters:

s - the string to parse

Returns:

the resulting, possibly modified, string

See Also:

convertCharacterEntities(java.lang.String), stripHTMLTags(java.lang.String)