TransformerService.java

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 * 
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package org.apache.jetspeed.services.transformer;

//standard java stuff
import java.io.Reader;

// turbine stuff
import org.apache.turbine.services.Service;

/**
 * This service is responsible for locate and transform HTML content
 * 
 * @author <a href="mailto:mmari@ce.unipr.it">Marco Mari</a>
 * @version $Id: TransformerService.java,v 1.2 2004/02/23 03:39:10 jford Exp $ 
 */
public interface TransformerService extends Service
{

	/** The name of this service */
	public String SERVICE_NAME = "Transformer";

	/**
	 * Finds an element in a web page
	 * 
	 * @param htmlReader Reader for the html rewriter
	 * @param url        page address
	 * @param element    the element to search
	 */
	public String findElement(Reader htmlReader, String url, String element);

	/**
	 * Clips the part of a web page between startElement and stopElement
	 * 
	 * @param htmlReader    Reader for the html rewriter
	 * @param url           page address
	 * @param startElement  the first element to clip
	 * @param stopElement   the last element to clip
	 */
	public String clipElements(
		Reader htmlReader,
		String url,
		String startElement,
		String stopElement);

	/**
	 * Finds in an HTML page the "tagNumber" tag of type "element"
	 * Example: element = "p", tagNumber = "3"
	 * Page content:
	 * <p>..</p>
	 * <p>..</p>
	 * <p>..   <---Finds this    
	 * 
	 * @param htmlReader Reader for the html rewriter
	 * @param url        page address
	 * @param element    the element to search
	 * @param tagNumber  the number of the element to search
	 */
	public String findElementNumber(
		Reader htmlReader,
		String url,
		String element,
		int tagNumber);

	/**
	 * Clips a part of a web page, starting from the "tagNumber" "startElement"
	 * Example: startElement = "p", tagNumber = "3", stopElement = "img"
	 * Page content:
	 * <p>..</p>
	 * <p>..</p>
	 * <p>..   <---Starts here
	 * ........<img>  <---Stops here
	 * 
	 * @param htmlReader    Reader for the html rewriter
	 * @param url           page address
	 * @param startElement  the first element to clip
	 * @param stopElement   the last element to clip
	 * @param tagNumber     the number of the first element to clip
	 */
	public String clipElementsNumber(
		Reader htmlReader,
		String url,
		String startElement,
		String stopElement,
		int tagNumber);
}