I have a need to parse fairly simple HTML in my app, but the HTML can be strictly controlled because it's all going to be made by our own designers and blessed before being introduced into the product.
For example, I can disallow any tags that are hard to handle and maintain the strict quality of the code (no unbalanced tags, no leaving the quotes off attributes and other things that regular HTML parsers are forced to deal with). So I have the idea that using XHTML as the source text will work well and I can parse it with the Xerces library that I've already integrated into my application. (I might have to preprocess the WYSISWYG web authoring tools HTML into XHTML that but could even be done by hand in my case). But I need something to interpret the tags and convert them into layout of the text and graphics in my app. What I'd like is something that I can pass a DOM tree too (SAX would be OK too) and it would ask my GUI library questions like "what is the width and height of this text" or character, or graphic and so on, and then there'd be some way I could link that up to layout of my window. Again in my case I only need really, really simple stuff. So I could even be a test case for an incomplete API as long as what was implemented could be gotten to work reliably. Is there something like this available? Or would it be hard to write what I need given I already have Xerces working and I can choose to use XHTML? Mike Crawford GoingWare - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
