Design question - HTML table parser

[Rio]

I'm trying to build HTML table parser (available not satisfying my needs), I
need to know what is in every cell, along with its cell, row and table
number plus the attributes that go with those tags.

I create Table, TableRow and TableCell objects each containing an array list
of subelements. That works fine when the tables are not nested, so my
question is how would I design Table that holds Rows that hold Cells which
again can contain the whole Table!

[Hal Rosser]

Re: Design question - HTML table parser


"Rio" <riolino_eatbal l@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to build HTML table parser (available not satisfying my needs),[/color]
I[color=blue]
> need to know what is in every cell, along with its cell, row and table
> number plus the attributes that go with those tags.
>
> I create Table, TableRow and TableCell objects each containing an array[/color]
list[color=blue]
> of subelements. That works fine when the tables are not nested, so my
> question is how would I design Table that holds Rows that hold Cells[/color]
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> again can contain the whole Table!
>
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<table>
<tr>
<td>content</td>
<td> <table>
<tr>
<td>content</td>
<td>more content</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>


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[Pop Qvarnström]

Re: Design question - HTML table parser

Rio wrote:
[color=blue]
> I'm trying to build HTML table parser (available not satisfying my needs),
> I need to know what is in every cell, along with its cell, row and table
> number plus the attributes that go with those tags.
>
> I create Table, TableRow and TableCell objects each containing an array
> list of subelements. That works fine when the tables are not nested, so my
> question is how would I design Table that holds Rows that hold Cells
> which again can contain the whole Table![/color]

I'd suggest creating an interface TableData. Then each TableCell can contain
TableData, and Table could implement that.

I used something like this in an old HTML -> fixed width formatted text
parser.

public interface TableData {
public String[] getText();
}

public class Table implements TableData {
....
}

public class TableCell {
public TableCell(Table Data) {...}
}