On 4/14/06, Dominik Bruhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hy, > I know its not a velocity-specific question, but perhaps someone knows a > solution. > > Perhaps you know BBCode: These is a Markup-Language used in > Web-Bulletin-Boards like PHPBB or VBulletin. BB-Codes makes it possible to > format the text by the user in easy ways while perserving the security for > the administrators (no JavaScript, no IFrames, only permitted Tags). For > example you get the String "[b]This is Bold [i] and this is italic and > bold[/i][/b]". Now I need a piece of java which converts these Strings > into > HTML again, in case of this example to a string like "<b>This is Bold <i> > and > this is italic </i></b>". There are some difficult tags like > [url="http://google.com"]Search Engine[/url] which should be converted to > "<a > href="http://google.com"; target="_blank">Search Engine</a>". > > I know you could realize this easily by using Regular-Expressions, but > this is > not enough: You have to check that every tag opened is closed again, > otherwise you get ugly HTML or the User is able to format more than his > code > because there is no closing Tag. > > I know the solution for these problems is to split up the string into a > tree, > then check it and merge the tree to the output-string again. Thats how the > mentioned PHP-Boards do it. I could now realize this code in Java which > costs > me many time. Thats why I ask here: Is there someone who knows a > BBCode-Parser written in Java? > > Thanks > TO
check http://www.koders.com/java/fid026F81DAE7C88C51203F24179E95959F0DBA4E6D.aspx?s=ToTextRenderer it is part of the jboss project. may help. -- Regards, Shawn
