Editing HTML
Generally, editor kits serve as a collection point for
everything you would need to read, write, edit, and display some type of
content. The HTMLEditorKit in particular serves as just such a collection point for
HTML content. In addition to the HTMLEditorKit class proper, several supporting
classes aid in the process of reading HTML, displaying it in the
framework of JEditorPane, and writing
it to a stream. Specifically, we look at the javax.swing.text.html.parser package and the
HTMLWriter class. The APIs for this
section remain a bit opaque, but as we mentioned earlier, each new
release of the SDK comes with increased support, functionality, and
openness.
If you’re not interested in the hows and wheres of reading and
writing HTML, but still want to be able to edit HTML documents, go ahead
and dive into this example. We extend the SimpleEditor from earlier in this chapter to
support two things:
More HTML actions, including horizontal rules, images, and hyperlinks
A Save menu item to write the document as HTML
To get started, Figure 23-8 is a screenshot of our editor in action. The document you see was created from scratch using the editor.
Figure 23-8. The SimpleEditor extended to support HTML
Here’s the HTML generated when you save the document:
<html> <head> </head> <body> <p> This is some simple text. </p> <hr> And <a href="http://www.ora.com">this is a link</a>. <p> ...
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