org.htmlparser.scanners

Class CompositeTagScanner

public class CompositeTagScanner extends TagScanner

The main scanning logic for nested tags. When asked to scan, this class gathers nodes into a heirarchy of tags.
Constructor Summary
CompositeTagScanner()
Create a composite tag scanner.
Method Summary
protected voidaddChild(Tag parent, Node child)
Add a child to the given tag.
protected TagcreateVirtualEndTag(Tag tag, Lexer lexer, Page page, int position)
Creates an end tag with the same name as the given tag.
protected voidfinishTag(Tag tag, Lexer lexer)
Finish off a tag.
booleanisTagToBeEndedFor(Tag current, Tag tag)
Determine if the current tag should be terminated by the given tag.
Tagscan(Tag tag, Lexer lexer, NodeList stack)
Collect the children.

Constructor Detail

CompositeTagScanner

public CompositeTagScanner()
Create a composite tag scanner.

Method Detail

addChild

protected void addChild(Tag parent, Node child)
Add a child to the given tag.

Parameters: parent The parent tag. child The child node.

createVirtualEndTag

protected Tag createVirtualEndTag(Tag tag, Lexer lexer, Page page, int position)
Creates an end tag with the same name as the given tag.

Parameters: tag The tag to end. lexer The object containg the node factory. page The page the tag is on (virtually). position The offset into the page at which the tag is to be anchored.

Returns: An end tag with the name '"/" + tag.getTagName()' and a start and end position at the given position. The fact these positions are equal may be used to distinguish it as a virtual tag later on.

finishTag

protected void finishTag(Tag tag, Lexer lexer)
Finish off a tag. Perhap add a virtual end tag. Set the end tag parent as this tag. Perform the semantic acton.

Parameters: tag The tag to finish off. lexer A lexer positioned at the end of the tag.

isTagToBeEndedFor

public final boolean isTagToBeEndedFor(Tag current, Tag tag)
Determine if the current tag should be terminated by the given tag. Examines the 'enders' or 'end tag enders' lists of the current tag for a match with the given tag. Which list is chosen depends on whether tag is an end tag ('end tag enders') or not ('enders').

Parameters: current The tag that might need to be ended. tag The candidate tag that might end the current one.

Returns: true if the name of the given tag is a member of the appropriate list.

scan

public Tag scan(Tag tag, Lexer lexer, NodeList stack)
Collect the children.

An initial test is performed for an empty XML tag, in which case the start tag and end tag of the returned tag are the same and it has no children.

If it's not an empty XML tag, the lexer is repeatedly asked for subsequent nodes until an end tag is found or a node is encountered that matches the tag ender set or end tag ender set. In the latter case, a virtual end tag is created. Each node found that is not the end tag is added to the list of children. The end tag is special and not a child.

Nodes that also have a CompositeTagScanner as their scanner are recursed into, which provides the nested structure of an HTML page. This method operates in two possible modes, depending on a private boolean. It can recurse on the JVM stack, which has caused some overflow problems in the past, or it can use the supplied stack argument to nest scanning of child tags within itself. The former is left as an option in the code, mostly to help subsequent modifiers visualize what the internal nesting is doing.

Parameters: tag The tag this scanner is responsible for. lexer The source of subsequent nodes. stack The parse stack. May contain pending tags that enclose this tag.

Returns: The resultant tag (may be unchanged).

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