Class: HTMLUtilities

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • common actions
  • helpers
  • serving-helpers
  • text processing helpers

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--HTMLUtilities

Package:

stx:libbasic2

Category:

Net-Communication-Support

Version:

rev: 1.9 date: 2010/04/12 12:53:03

user: sr

file: HTMLUtilities.st directory: libbasic2

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libbasic2

Description:

Collected support functions to deal with HTML.
Used both by HTML generators (DocGenerator), HTMLParsers and the webServer.
Therefore, it has been put into libbasic2.

Class protocol:

 openLauncherOnDisplay: displayName

 controlCharacters

 escapeCharacterEntities: aString

helper to escape invalid/dangerous characters in html strings.
These are:
control characters, '<', '>', '&' and space -> %XX ascii as hex digits
% -> %%

 extractCharSetEncodingFromContentType: contentTypeLine

 extractMimeTypeFromContentType: contentTypeLine

 unEscape: aString

Convert escaped characters in an urls arguments or post fields to their proper characters.
These are:
+ -> space
%XX ascii as hex digits
%% -> %

 urlEncoded: aString

helper to escape invalid/dangerous characters in an urls arguments or post-fields.
see: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

 withAllSpecialHTMLCharactersEscaped: aStringOrCharacter

replace ampersand, less, greater and quotes by html-character escapes

 withSpecialHTMLCharactersEscaped: aStringOrCharacter

replace ampersand, less and greater by html-character escapes

 escape: aString

helper to escape invalid/dangerous characters in an url's arguments or post-fields.
These are:
control characters, '+', ';', '?', '&' and space -> %XX ascii as hex digits
% -> %%

 plainTextOfHTML: htmlString

given some HTML, extract the raw text.
Can be used to search for strings in some html text.