EllipsesAndDashes.java

package folioxml.export.html;

import folioxml.core.InvalidMarkupException;
import folioxml.export.NodeListProcessor;
import folioxml.xml.NodeList;
import folioxml.xml.XmlToStringWrapper;

/**
 * Converts "..." to a real ellipsis and "--" to an mdash.
 *
 * @author nathanael
 */
public class EllipsesAndDashes implements NodeListProcessor {


    public NodeList process(NodeList nodes) throws InvalidMarkupException {
        //Text search and replace.
        XmlToStringWrapper text = nodes.getStringWrapper(false); //No entity decoding/encoding. We're dealing with it here
        text.replaceAll("--", "—", false);
        //BUG: When this is used at the start of a sentence, and the previous sentence has no trailing whitespace, and ends with a period...
        //The wrong 3 ellipses will be converted.

        //TEMP FIX: Only convert the last three in a series of dots.
        text.replaceAll("\\.\\.\\.(?!\\.)", "…", false);

        return nodes;
    }

}