Class: TextExtractor (in HTML)

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • extraction
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • ignored visiting
• Examples

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--HTML::Visitor
      |
      +--HTML::TextExtractor

Package:

stx:goodies/webServer/htmlTree

Category:

Net-Documents-Utilities

Version:

rev: 1.2 date: 2010/04/26 11:28:47

user: sr

file: HTML__TextExtractor.st directory: goodies/webServer/htmlTree

module: stx stc-classLibrary: htmlTree

Author:

Claus Gittinger

Description:

a tool to extract the raw text of some html 
(either a constructed tree, or from a parser)
can be used to extract strings for searching, or for
conversion to raw-ascii, for example.

CAVEAT:
    I am not sure if this implementation is generic enough for
    other uses in its current state 
    (maybe we have to look for specialities like PRE.../PRE or     
    text within form-elements to make this really correct)

Class protocol:

 extractTextFromDocument: domTree

 extractTextFromHtmlString: htmlString

Instance protocol:

 text

 visitElement: anElement

Default method for all html elements.

 visitString: aString

Examples:

     |b document x|

     b := HTML::TreeBuilder new beginWith:(document := Document new).
     b 
        head;
        headEnd;
        body;
          table;
            tr;
              td; text:'aaa'; tdEnd;
              td; text:'bbb'; tdEnd;
            trEnd;
          tableEnd;
        bodyEnd.

     document htmlString inspect.
     x := HTML::TextExtractor new.
     x visit:document.
     x text inspect.

     |document|

     document := HTML::HTMLParser parseText:'<h1>Hello <b>World</b></h1>'.
     (HTML::TextExtractor extractTextFromDocument:document) inspect.

     (HTML::TextExtractor extractTextFromHtmlString:'<h1>Hello <b>World</b></h1>') inspect.