Annotation of libwww/Library/src/HTML.html, revision 2.25

2.7       timbl       1: <HTML>
                      2: <HEAD>
                      3: <TITLE>HTML to rich text converter for libwww</TITLE>
                      4: </HEAD>
2.6       timbl       5: <BODY>
2.20      frystyk     6: 
                      7: <H1>The HTML to styled text object converter</H1>
                      8: 
                      9: <PRE>
                     10: /*
2.24      frystyk    11: **     (c) COPYRIGHT MIT 1995.
2.20      frystyk    12: **     Please first read the full copyright statement in the file COPYRIGH.
                     13: */
                     14: </PRE>
                     15: 
                     16: This interprets the <A
2.23      frystyk    17: HREF="http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/MarkUp.html">HTML</A>
2.20      frystyk    18: semantics and some HTMLPlus.<P>
                     19: 
                     20: This module is implemented by <A HREF="HTML.c">HTML.c</A>, and it is
                     21: a part of the <A
2.25    ! frystyk    22: HREF="http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Library/">
        !            23: W3C Reference Library</A>.
2.20      frystyk    24: 
                     25: <PRE>
                     26: #ifndef HTML_H
2.1       timbl      27: #define HTML_H
                     28: 
2.13      luotonen   29: #include "HTFormat.h"
2.1       timbl      30: #include "HTAnchor.h"
2.8       timbl      31: #include "HTMLPDTD.h"
2.1       timbl      32: 
2.8       timbl      33: #define DTD HTMLP_dtd
2.1       timbl      34: 
                     35: extern CONST HTStructuredClass HTMLPresentation;
2.17      frystyk    36: </PRE>
                     37: 
                     38: <H2>HTML_new: A structured stream to parse HTML</H2>
2.1       timbl      39: 
2.17      frystyk    40: When this routine is called, the request structure may contain a <A
                     41: NAME="z4" HREF="HTAccess.html#z6">childAnchor</A> value.  In that case
                     42: it is the responsability of this module to select the anchor.<P>
2.12      timbl      43:  
2.9       timbl      44: <PRE>extern HTStructured* HTML_new PARAMS((HTRequest * request,
2.8       timbl      45:                                        void *   param,
                     46:                                        HTFormat input_format,
                     47:                                        HTFormat output_format,
                     48:                                        HTStream * output_stream));
                     49: 
2.10      luotonen   50: </PRE>
2.1       timbl      51: 
2.17      frystyk    52: <H3>Reopen</H3>
                     53: 
                     54: Reopening an existing HTML object allows it to be retained (for
                     55: example by the styled text object) after the structured stream has
                     56: been closed.  To be actually deleted, the HTML object must be closed
                     57: once more times than it has been reopened.
                     58: 
                     59: <PRE>
                     60: extern void HTML_reopen PARAMS((HTStructured * me));
2.10      luotonen   61: </PRE>
2.17      frystyk    62: 
2.10      luotonen   63: <H2>Converters</H2>
2.8       timbl      64: 
2.17      frystyk    65: These are the converters implemented in this module:
2.8       timbl      66: 
2.17      frystyk    67: <PRE>
2.22      frystyk    68: #ifndef pyramid
2.17      frystyk    69: extern HTConverter HTMLToPlain, HTMLToC, HTMLPresent, HTMLToTeX;
                     70: #endif
2.8       timbl      71: </PRE>
2.17      frystyk    72: 
2.8       timbl      73: <H2>Selecting internal character set
                     74: representations</H2>
                     75: <PRE>typedef enum _HTMLCharacterSet {
2.1       timbl      76:        HTML_ISO_LATIN1,
                     77:        HTML_NEXT_CHARS,
                     78:        HTML_PC_CP950
                     79: } HTMLCharacterSet;
                     80: 
                     81: extern void HTMLUseCharacterSet PARAMS((HTMLCharacterSet i));
                     82: 
2.6       timbl      83: </PRE>
                     84: <H2>Record error message as a hypertext
                     85: object</H2>The error message should be marked
                     86: as an error so that it can be reloaded
                     87: later. This implementation just throws
                     88: up an error message and leaves the
                     89: document unloaded.
2.10      luotonen   90: <H3>On entry,</H3>
                     91: <DL>
                     92: <DT>sink
2.11      timbl      93: <DD> is a stream to the output device
2.10      luotonen   94: if any
                     95: <DT>number
2.11      timbl      96: <DD> is the HTTP error number
2.10      luotonen   97: <DT>message
2.11      timbl      98: <DD> is the human readable message.
2.10      luotonen   99: </DL>
                    100: 
                    101: <H3>On exit,</H3>a return code like HT_LOADED if object
                    102: exists else &lt; 0
2.19      frystyk   103: <PRE>extern int HTLoadError PARAMS((
2.14      luotonen  104:        HTRequest *     req,
2.1       timbl     105:        int             number,
                    106:        CONST char *    message));
                    107: 
2.6       timbl     108: 
2.16      timbl     109: </PRE>
2.22      frystyk   110: 
                    111: <H2>White Space Treatment</H2>
                    112: 
                    113: There is a small number of different ways of treating white space in
                    114: SGML, in mapping from a text object to HTML.  These have to be
                    115: programmed it seems.
                    116: 
                    117: <PRE>
2.16      timbl     118: /*
                    119: In text object \n\n            \n      tab     \n\n\t
                    120: -------------- -------------   -----   -----   -------
                    121: in Address,
                    122: Blockquote,
2.22      frystyk   123: Normal,                &lt;P&gt;               &lt;BR&gt;      -               NORMAL
                    124: H1-6:          close+open      &lt;BR&gt;      -               HEADING
                    125: Glossary       &lt;DT&gt;              &lt;DT&gt;      &lt;DD&gt;      &lt;P&gt;       GLOSSARY
2.16      timbl     126: List,                          
2.22      frystyk   127: Menu           &lt;LI&gt;              &lt;LI&gt;      -       &lt;P&gt;       LIST
                    128: Dir            &lt;LI&gt;              &lt;LI&gt;      &lt;LI&gt;              DIR
2.16      timbl     129: Pre etc                \n\n            \n      \t              PRE
2.7       timbl     130: 
2.16      timbl     131: */
                    132: 
                    133: typedef enum _white_space_treatment {
                    134:        WS_NORMAL,
                    135:        WS_HEADING,
                    136:        WS_GLOSSARY,
                    137:        WS_LIST,
                    138:        WS_DIR,
                    139:        WS_PRE
                    140: } white_space_treatment;
                    141: 
                    142: </pre>
2.22      frystyk   143: 
2.16      timbl     144: <h2>Nesting State</h2>
                    145: These elements form tree with an item for each nesting state: that
                    146: is, each unique combination of nested elements which has a
                    147: specific style.
                    148: <pre>
                    149: typedef struct _HTNesting {
                    150:     void *                     style;  /* HTStyle *: Platform dependent */
                    151:     white_space_treatment      wst;
                    152:     struct _HTNesting *                parent;
                    153:     int                                element_number;
                    154:     int                                item_number;    /* only for ordered lists */
                    155:     int                                list_level;     /* how deep nested */
                    156:     HTList *                   children;
                    157:     BOOL                       paragraph_break;
                    158:     int                                magic;
                    159:     BOOL                       object_gens_HTML; /* we don't generate HTML */
                    160: } HTNesting;
                    161: 
                    162: 
                    163: </pre>
                    164: <H2>Nesting functions</H2>
                    165: These functions were new with HTML2.c.  They allow the tree
                    166: of SGML nesting states to be manipulated, and SGML regenerated from the
                    167: style sequence.
                    168: <PRE>
                    169: 
                    170: extern void HTRegenInit NOPARAMS;
                    171: 
                    172: extern void HTRegenCharacter PARAMS((
                    173:        char                    c,
                    174:        HTNesting *             nesting,
                    175:        HTStructured *          target));
                    176: 
                    177: extern void HTNestingChange PARAMS((
                    178:        HTStructured*   s, 
                    179:        HTNesting*              old, 
2.18      frystyk   180:        HTNesting *             newnest,
2.16      timbl     181:        HTChildAnchor *         info,
                    182:        CONST char *            aName));
                    183: 
                    184: extern HTNesting * HTMLCommonality PARAMS((
                    185:        HTNesting *     s1,
                    186:        HTNesting *     s2));
                    187: 
                    188: extern HTNesting * HTNestElement PARAMS((HTNesting * p, int ele));
                    189: extern /* HTStyle * */ void * HTStyleForNesting PARAMS((HTNesting * n));
                    190: 
                    191: extern HTNesting* HTMLAncestor PARAMS((HTNesting * old, int depth));
2.18      frystyk   192: 
                    193: extern HTNesting* CopyBranch PARAMS((HTNesting * old, HTNesting * newnest,
                    194:                                     int depth));
                    195: 
2.16      timbl     196: extern HTNesting * HTInsertLevel PARAMS((HTNesting * old,
                    197:                int     element_number,
                    198:                int     level));
                    199: extern HTNesting * HTDeleteLevel PARAMS((HTNesting * old,
                    200:                int     level));
                    201: extern int HTMLElementNumber PARAMS((HTNesting * s));
                    202: extern int HTMLLevel PARAMS(( HTNesting * s));
                    203: extern HTNesting* HTMLAncestor PARAMS((HTNesting * old, int depth));
                    204: 
                    205: #endif         /* end HTML_H */
                    206: 
                    207: </PRE>
                    208: 
                    209: end</BODY>
2.7       timbl     210: </HTML>

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