org.writersforge.catalan.transform
Class TextProcessor

java.lang.Object
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  +--org.writersforge.catalan.transform.BaseNodeProcessor
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        +--org.writersforge.catalan.transform.TextProcessor

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.writersforge.bellows.traverse.NodeProcessor

Direct Known Subclasses:

Normalizer, TextReplacer, TokenSplitter, VariableTextReplacer

public abstract class TextProcessor

extends BaseNodeProcessor

The shared base class for all Catalan ASCII text processors.

Author:

jsheets

Constructor Summary

TextProcessor()
Creates a new instance of TextProcessor.

Method Summary

java.util.List	processNode(java.lang.Object node) Process a single node.
protected abstract java.util.List	processText(java.lang.String text) Processes the text node.

Methods inherited from class org.writersforge.catalan.transform.BaseNodeProcessor

addLeftover, end, getLeftovers, getNodes, start

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

TextProcessor

public TextProcessor()

Creates a new instance of TextProcessor.

Method Detail

processNode

public java.util.List processNode(java.lang.Object node)

Process a single node. The processing action can be any arbitrary task, such as text replacement, data restructuring, or even statistical gathering. The processor should return a processed version of the node; this can be the same object untouched, or the same object modified, or a new set of objects.

Parameters:

node - the node to process

Returns:

a List of processing results (can be empty)

processText

protected abstract java.util.List processText(java.lang.String text)

Processes the text node. Not called for non-String nodes.

Parameters:

text - the text to process

Returns:

the processed text