// CSE 143, Homework 2: HTML Validator
// An HtmlTag object represents an HTML tag, such as or .
// HtmlTags can be sorted first alphabetically by element then by whether
// they are opening or not (opening tags go first). Java code such as TreeSet,
// Collections.sort, etc can take advantage of this because we implement
// the comparable interface.
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.Set;
/** An HtmlTag object represents an HTML tag, such as or . */
public class HtmlTag implements Comparable {
// fields
private final String element; // p, table, div
private final boolean isOpenTag; // true ; false
// Return < 0 if this tag comes before the given other tag
// Return > 0 if this tag comes after the given other tag
// Return 0 if this tag is the same as the given other tag
// order by element, opening tags before closing tags
public int compareTo(HtmlTag other) {
if (element.equals(other.element) && isOpenTag == other.isOpenTag) {
return 0;
} else if (element.equals(other.element)) {
if (isOpenTag() && !other.isOpenTag()) {
return -1;
} else {
return 1;
}
}
return element.compareTo(other.element);
}
/**
* Constructs an HTML "opening" tag with the given element (e.g. "table").
* Throws a NullPointerException if element is null.
*/
public HtmlTag(String element) {
this(element, true);
}
/**
* Constructs an HTML tag with the given element (e.g. "table") and type.
* Self-closing tags like
* are considered to be "opening" tags, and return true from the isOpenTag
* method. Throws a NullPointerException if element is null.
*/
public HtmlTag(String element, boolean isOpenTag) {
this.element = element.toLowerCase();
this.isOpenTag = isOpenTag;
}
/** Returns this HTML tag's element, such as "table" or "p". */
public String getElement() {
return element;
}
/**
* Returns true if this HTML tag is an "opening" (starting) tag and false if
* it is a closing tag. Self-closing tags like
* are considered to be "opening" tags.
*/
public boolean isOpenTag() {
return isOpenTag;
}
/**
* Returns true if the given other tag is non-null and matches this tag; that
* is, if they have the same element but opposite types, such as and
* .
*/
public boolean matches(HtmlTag other) {
return other != null && element.equalsIgnoreCase(other.element)
&& isOpenTag != other.isOpenTag;
}
/**
* Returns true if this tag does not requires a matching closing tag, which
* is the case for certain elements such as br and img.
*/
public boolean isSelfClosing() {
return SELF_CLOSING_TAGS.contains(element);
}
/** Returns a string representation of this HTML tag, such as "". */
public String toString() {
return "<" + (isOpenTag ? "" : "/")
+ (element.equals("!--") ? "!-- --" : element) + ">";
}
/**
* Returns true if this tag has the same element and type as the given other
* tag.
*/
public boolean equals(Object o) {
if (o instanceof HtmlTag) {
HtmlTag other = (HtmlTag) o;
return element.equals(other.element) && isOpenTag == other.isOpenTag;
} else {
return false;
}
}
// a set of tags that don't need to be matched (self-closing)
private static final Set SELF_CLOSING_TAGS = new HashSet(
Arrays.asList("!doctype", "!--", "?xml", "xml", "area", "base",
"basefont", "br", "col", "frame", "hr", "img", "input", "link",
"meta", "param"));
// all whitespace characters; used in text parsing
private static final String WHITESPACE = " \f\n\r\t";
/**
* Reads a string such as "
*
* " or "" and converts it into an HtmlTag, which is returned. Throws a
* NullPointerException if tagText is null.
*/
public static HtmlTag parse(String tagText) {
tagText = tagText.trim();
boolean isOpenTag = !tagText.contains(" tokenize(String text) {
StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer(text);
LinkedList queue = new LinkedList();
while (true) {
HtmlTag nextTag = nextTag(buf);
if (nextTag == null) {
break;
} else {
queue.add(nextTag);
}
}
return queue;
}
// advances to next tag in input;
// probably not a perfect HTML tag tokenizer, but it will do for this HW
private static HtmlTag nextTag(StringBuffer buf) {
int index1 = buf.indexOf("<");
int index2 = buf.indexOf(">");
if (index1 >= 0 && index2 > index1) {
// check for HTML comments:
if (index1 + 4 <= buf.length()
&& buf.substring(index1 + 1, index1 + 4).equals("!--")) {
// a comment; look for closing comment tag -->
index2 = buf.indexOf("-->", index1 + 4);
if (index2 < 0) {
return null;
} else {
buf.insert(index1 + 4, " "); // fixes things like
index2 += 3; // advance to the closing >
}
}
String element = buf.substring(index1 + 1, index2).trim();
// remove attributes
for (int i = 0; i < WHITESPACE.length(); i++) {
int index3 = element.indexOf(WHITESPACE.charAt(i));
if (index3 >= 0) {
element = element.substring(0, index3);
}
}
// determine whether opening or closing tag
boolean isOpenTag = true;
if (element.indexOf("/") == 0) {
isOpenTag = false;
element = element.substring(1);
}
element = element.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z0-9!-]+", "");
buf.delete(0, index2 + 1);
return new HtmlTag(element, isOpenTag);
} else {
return null;
}
}
}