de.dbsystems.simplescrape
Class TextToken

java.lang.Object
  de.dbsystems.simplescrape.AbstractHTMLToken
      de.dbsystems.simplescrape.TextToken

Direct Known Subclasses:

RegExTextToken

public class TextToken
extends AbstractHTMLToken

Represents tokens containing text data in an HTML-file. This is all data outside of tags and comments. Tokens can span multiple words, sentences and lines.

Since:

04.04.2007

Author:

Ronald Bieber, DB Systems GmbH

Constructor Summary

TextToken(java.lang.String text)
Creates a new TextToken, initializing it with the provided text.

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getText() Returns the text-content of this token.
boolean	match(AbstractHTMLToken other, ScrapeOptions options) Determines whether two tokens match.
java.lang.String	toString() Returns the text-content of this token.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

TextToken

public TextToken(java.lang.String text)

Creates a new TextToken, initializing it with the provided text.

Parameters:

text - The text this token is supposed to hold.

Method Detail

getText

public java.lang.String getText()

Returns the text-content of this token.

Returns:

The text token, or null, if none has been set.

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Returns the text-content of this token. Unlike than with other children of HtmlToken, this is the same as calling

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

The text token, or null, if none has been set.

See Also:

getText()

match

public boolean match(AbstractHTMLToken other,
                     ScrapeOptions options)

Description copied from class: AbstractHTMLToken

Determines whether two tokens match.

Specified by:

match in class AbstractHTMLToken

Parameters:

other - The search-HtmlToken to be tested against.

options - A set of options. Relevant options are attributesStrict, trimText and ignoreCase.

Returns:

true: The two elements match, false: they don't (duh!)