org.xenbase.utilities
Class StringUtil

java.lang.Object
  org.xenbase.utilities.StringUtil

public class StringUtil
extends java.lang.Object

Constructor Summary

StringUtil()

Method Summary

static java.lang.String	convertUrl(java.lang.String url) Utility function that sanitizes a string so it can be used as a URL
static java.lang.String	removeDuplicateWhitespace(java.lang.String inputStr) Utility function that removes excess whitespace, this was included because of some peculiar formatting in the captions of some journals.
static java.lang.String	stripHTMLTags(java.lang.String message) Utility function that removes XML or HTML tags from a string.
static java.lang.String	unescapeHTML(java.lang.String text) Utility function that un-escapes all of the HTML character entities that may be in the caption body.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

StringUtil

public StringUtil()

Method Detail

removeDuplicateWhitespace

public static java.lang.String removeDuplicateWhitespace(java.lang.String inputStr)
                                                  throws java.lang.Exception,
                                                         java.lang.Error

Utility function that removes excess whitespace, this was included because of some peculiar formatting in the captions of some journals.

Parameters:

String - inputStr

Returns:

String

Throws:

java.lang.Exception

java.lang.Error

stripHTMLTags

public static java.lang.String stripHTMLTags(java.lang.String message)
                                      throws java.lang.Exception,
                                             java.lang.Error

Utility function that removes XML or HTML tags from a string. It is possible that a string could be constructed which would could be identified as falsely containing a tag. However this case is remote and as such, has not been addressed.

Parameters:

String - message

Returns:

String message without XML or HTML

Throws:

java.lang.Exception

java.lang.Error

convertUrl

public static java.lang.String convertUrl(java.lang.String url)
                                   throws java.lang.Exception,
                                          java.lang.Error

Utility function that sanitizes a string so it can be used as a URL

Parameters:

String - URL

Returns:

String

Throws:

java.lang.Exception

java.lang.Error

unescapeHTML

public static java.lang.String unescapeHTML(java.lang.String text)
                                     throws java.lang.Exception,
                                            java.lang.Error

Utility function that un-escapes all of the HTML character entities that may be in the caption body. This turns them into human readable UTF-8 (Uni-code) characters.

Parameters:

String - URL

Returns:

String

Throws:

java.lang.Exception

java.lang.Error