foxy.proxy.transform
Although its name may presume that this package handles
the appliance of transformation-rules, this process
is done by FOXY's filter-package (see section 2.3.2.
The transformation-package is only responsible for converting
HTML- to well-formed XML-data.
For the implementation of the transformer, we used
the well-known factory design-pattern.
The user may implement and use its own ProxyTransformerFactory
(and its own transformer-implementation, respectively) by
delivering the name of the personalized TransformerFactory-implementation to
Java's virtual machine during startup.
This is done by setting the parameter
foxy.proxy.transform.ProxyTransformerFactory
to the name of its own implementation (default value:
foxy.proxy.transform.DefaultTransformerFactory).
The factory class is implemented as singleton which ensures that there
can exist only one instance of it in the system.
The factory-class contains one public function - newTransformer() - for
the creation of a new ProxyTransformer.
The ProxyTransformer-interface contains only one public method, called html2Xml(..),
which is responsible for converting HTML-data to well-formed XML (or XHTML, respectively).
Its default implementation - DefaultProxyTransformer - uses the JTidy-pretty-printer
to achieve this aim (see section 2.2.2).
Figure 2.10 shows the relation between the
classes and interfaces of this package.
Figure 2.10:
Important classes/interfaces of package foxy.proxy.transform
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