Class Replacer

java.lang.Object
  org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler
      Replacer

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.xml.sax.ContentHandler, org.xml.sax.DTDHandler, org.xml.sax.EntityResolver, org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler

public class Replacer
extends org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler

This SAX parser copies an XML corpus file into an output file replacing in mode 3 or 4 all orth elements with the replacements specified in a ConversionDictionary, otherwise stripping the elements or replacing them with strings of Xx chars

Version:

0.1, November 2007

Author:

Johannes Dellert

Constructor Summary

Replacer(java.io.File outputFile, int aMode, java.lang.String theOrthPath, java.lang.String thePosPath, Drop log)
A Replacer needs an output file, a mode, and specification of the content to mask.

Method Summary

void	characters(char[] ch, int start, int length)
void	endDocument()
void	endElement(java.lang.String namespaceURI, java.lang.String sName, java.lang.String qName)
void	log(java.lang.String output) used to display a message (debugging or progress info) in System.out or in the log window of the GUI
void	setConvDict(ConversionDictionary theDict) specify a ConversionDictionary to be used for masking
void	startDocument()
void	startElement(java.lang.String namespaceURI, java.lang.String sName, java.lang.String qName, org.xml.sax.Attributes attrs)

Methods inherited from class org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler

endPrefixMapping, error, fatalError, ignorableWhitespace, notationDecl, processingInstruction, resolveEntity, setDocumentLocator, skippedEntity, startPrefixMapping, unparsedEntityDecl, warning

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Replacer

public Replacer(java.io.File outputFile,
                int aMode,
                java.lang.String theOrthPath,
                java.lang.String thePosPath,
                Drop log)

A Replacer needs an output file, a mode, and specification of the content to mask.

Parameters:

outputFile - - the file to write to

aMode - - an integer between 0 and 4 for different modes (for internal use)

theOrthPath - - the XPath expression to define masked content

thePosPath - - the XPath expression to define classification of content for dictionary retrieval

log - - a Drop object to handle logging messages in the GUI - null for console output

Method Detail

setConvDict

public void setConvDict(ConversionDictionary theDict)

specify a ConversionDictionary to be used for masking

Parameters:

theDict - - a ConversionDictionary defining how to mask the different tokens

startDocument

public void startDocument()

Specified by:

startDocument in interface org.xml.sax.ContentHandler

Overrides:

startDocument in class org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler

endDocument

public void endDocument()

Specified by:

endDocument in interface org.xml.sax.ContentHandler

Overrides:

endDocument in class org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler

startElement

public void startElement(java.lang.String namespaceURI,
                         java.lang.String sName,
                         java.lang.String qName,
                         org.xml.sax.Attributes attrs)

Specified by:

startElement in interface org.xml.sax.ContentHandler

Overrides:

startElement in class org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler

endElement

public void endElement(java.lang.String namespaceURI,
                       java.lang.String sName,
                       java.lang.String qName)

Specified by:

endElement in interface org.xml.sax.ContentHandler

Overrides:

endElement in class org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler

characters

public void characters(char[] ch,
                       int start,
                       int length)

Specified by:

characters in interface org.xml.sax.ContentHandler

Overrides:

characters in class org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler

log

public void log(java.lang.String output)

used to display a message (debugging or progress info) in System.out or in the log window of the GUI

Parameters:

output - - the logging message to be displayed in System.out or in the log window of the GUI