org.liquidsite.core.text
Class PlainFormatter

java.lang.Object
  org.liquidsite.core.text.PlainFormatter

public class PlainFormatter

extends java.lang.Object

A plain text formatter. This class contains static methods for processing plain text to HTML.

Constructor Summary

PlainFormatter()

Method Summary

static java.lang.String	clean(java.lang.String text) Cleans a plain text string from excessive characters.
static java.lang.String	escapeHtml(java.lang.String str) Escapes HTML constructs in a string.
static java.lang.String	formatHtml(java.lang.String text) Formats a plain text string in HTML.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

PlainFormatter

public PlainFormatter()

Method Detail

clean

public static java.lang.String clean(java.lang.String text)

Cleans a plain text string from excessive characters.

Parameters:

text - the plain text string

Returns:

the cleaned text string

escapeHtml

public static java.lang.String escapeHtml(java.lang.String str)

Escapes HTML constructs in a string.

Parameters:

str - the string to process

Returns:

the HTML escaped string

formatHtml

public static java.lang.String formatHtml(java.lang.String text)

Formats a plain text string in HTML. This method will escape any occurencies of special HTML characters, insert HTML linebreaks instead of normal line breaks and create links for any absolute URLs found.

Parameters:

text - the plain text string

Returns:

the HTML encoded text