Time for action – writing the markup parser

First, the format of the markup language needs to be explained. The first line will be a title, and then subsequent paragraphs are blank-line separated. This can be translated into an HTML file as follows.

Minimark source

Translated HTML

This is the title

A paragraph with some text

Another paragraph

 

<html><head><title>This is the title</title></head><body><h1>This is the title</h1>

<p>
A paragraph with some text
</p>

<p>
Another paragraph
</p></body></html>
  1. Create a class called MinimarkTranslator in the com.packtpub.e4.minimark.ui package as follows:
    public class MinimarkTranslator { public static void convert(Reader reader, Writer writer) throws IOException { BufferedReader lines = new BufferedReader(reader); ...

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