HTML Style Splitter

This essay is about a suggested student project in Java programming. This essay gives a rough overview of how it might work. It does not describe an actual complete program. I have no source, object, specifications, file layouts or anything else useful to implementing this project. Everything I have to say to help you with this project is written below. I am not prepared to help you implement it; I have too many other projects of my own.

I do contract work for a living, which could include writing a program such as this. However, I don’t do people’s homework for them. That just robs them of an education.

You have my full permission to implement this project any way you please.

Let us say that in your original css HTML style marking you had a plant style for marking the names of plants and an animal style for marking the names of animals. You then decided that you wanted to break up the animal style more finely into invertebrate and vertebrate styles.

You could go through manually correcting all the animal styles. Instead you run the proposed style splitter utility that finds all uses of the animal style and plant styles and extracts the contents of each span, sorts, eliminates duplicates and presents them to you. Using an editor or mouse you divide the entries into three groups, the plant, the vertebrate and invertebrate. By your rearranging, you create a file that looks like this;

[vertebrate]
animal dog
animal cat
animal kat

[invertebrate]
animal snail
plant sea slug

[plant]
animal Venus Fly Trap
plant seaweed
plant strawberry

This simultaneously describes your new catogorising system and corrects the errors in the old one, e.g <span class="animal">Venus fly trap</span> and <span class="plant">sea slug</span>

You then run you utility over the *.html files to make the required changes.

Note this utility would not correct the kat spelling. You might want to invent a spell corrector that works in a similar way on the content of the styles rather than their names, correcting or changing terminology only in the context of a particular style. You would see a list of all the variant spellings and you would move them after the correct one for bulk correction, and perhaps for autocorrection in futture.

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