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Lehan
Lehan

Reputation: 21

Generate HTML from plain text using Java

I have to convert a .log file into a nice and pretty HTML file with tables. Right now I just want to get the HTML header down. My current method is to println to file every single line of the HTML file. for example

p.println("<html>");

p.println("<script>");

etc. there has to be a simpler way right?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3506

Answers (4)

James Scriven
James Scriven

Reputation: 8134

There are many templating engines available. Have a look at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/174204/suggestions-for-a-java-based-templating-engine This way you can define a template in a txt file and have the java code fill in the variables.

Upvotes: 0

maerics
maerics

Reputation: 156424

Printing raw HTML text as strings is probably the "easiest" (most straightforward) way to do what you're asking but it has its drawbacks (e.g. properly escaping the content text).

You could use the DOM (e.g. Document et al) interface provided by Java but that would hardly be "easy". Perhaps there are "DOM builder" type tools/libraries for Java that would simplify this task for you; I suggest looking at dom4j.

Upvotes: 2

user686605
user686605

Reputation:

Look at this Java HTML Generator library (easy to use). It should make generating the actual HTML muuuch clearer. There are complications when creating HTML with Java Strings (what happens if you want to change something like a rowspan?) that can be avoided with this library. Especially when dealing with tables.

Upvotes: 1

Tristian
Tristian

Reputation: 3512

How about using a JSP scriplet and JSTL?, you could create some custom object which holds all the important information and display it formatted using the Expression Language.

Upvotes: 2

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