Re: Creating HTML files from Java accessing Oracle

On 21 Jun 2004 13:40:55 -0700, mackdaddy315_at_hotmail.com (DM) wrote or quoted :

>I guess I am looking for
>methods that would make things easier rather than just outputting
>print commands line by line. :)

First use CSS.

Then internally have objects provide their own wrappers, e.g. String getText()
  { return text; }

String getHTML()
  { return "<span class=\"custname\">" + entify( text ) + "</span">; }

Then you can knock out the HTML like this:

 out.println( thing.getHtML() + thing2.getHTML() );

And you don't have to think about making tags balance.

You can create code like this

String li ( String body )
{
return "<li>" + body + </li>;
}

This is ever so much easier than trying to keep track of balancing yourself.

don't try to make it readable with indents and line breaks. Use a beautifier if you have to examine the output.

See http://mindprod.com/products.html#ENTITIES for code to insert and remove entities.

you might do something to collapse two identical class spans into one. and to collapse multiple spaces into one.

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