Rendering/De-parsing Layer

Rendering takes a document grove and renders it in some format for a specified media. For all documents types which can be parsed, there should be at least a renderer for the Screen MEDIA type.

De-parsing takes a document grove and converts it into some file type which, if it can be parsed, would produce an identical document grove. Not all files which result from de-parsing could be parsed back into document groves. For example, de-parsing and html file into a plain text file will lose too much information for it to be re-parse.

Possible Class/Interfaces

pedantiWEB.renderers.GenericRenderer

Some kind of generic interface to all the renderers.

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Screen.GenericRenderer

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Paged.GenericRenderer

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Print.GenericRenderer

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Projection.GenericRenderer

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Aural.GenericRenderer

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Screen.text.html.GenericRenderer

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Paged.text.html.GenericRenderer

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Print.text.html.GenericRenderer

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Projection.text.html.GenericRenderer

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Aural.text.html.GenericRenderer

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Screen.text.xml.GenericRenderer

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Paged.text.xml.GenericRenderer

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Print.text.xml.GenericRenderer

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Projection.text.xml.GenericRenderer

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Aural.text.xml.GenericRenderer

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Screen.text.plain.GenericRenderer

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Paged.text.plain.GenericRenderer

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Print.text.plain.GenericRenderer

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Projection.text.plain.GenericRenderer

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Aural.text.plain.GenericRenderer

For every different MIME type supported by the parser, there should be a set of renderers for it.

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Screen.TABLE

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Screen.text.html.IMG

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Screen.text.html.HEAD

pedantiWEB.renderers.MEDIA.Screen.text.html.LINK

For HTML, there would need to be specific renderers for some elements. For XML, and other file types, the Generic Renderer classes should be able to handle it.

pedantiWEB.deparsers.GenericDeparser

Generic interface

pedantiWEB.deparsers.MIME.text.plain.GenericDeparser

pedantiWEB.deparsers.MIME.text.html.GenericDeparser

pedantiWEB.deparsers.MIME.text.xml.GenericDeparser

pedantiWEB.deparsers.MIME.text.postscript.GenericDeparser

pedantiWEB.deparsers.MIME.text.css.GenericDeparser

pedantiWEB.deparsers.MIME.image.GenericDeparser

deparsers take a document grove and convert it into a file which, if re-parsed, would give an identical document grove. Deparsing can also be thought of as conversion.

pedantiWEB, a GPL, Java web browser

Last Updated on Wednesday, December 03, 1997.

$Id: renderers.html,v 1.2 1997/12/12 16:36:25 bereza Exp bereza $