How to create html files using Swing

Question

I am developing a billing system in java. I want to generate cash memo and other related documents in HTML format. I have explored html package in swing but without result. Please help me.
Arshad

Answer 1

Hi,
I agree with the previous poster. An additional way of generating HTML would be to directly write it. Class SHTMLWriter in package com.lightdev.app.shtm of application SimplyHTML at http://www.lightdev.com/template.php4?id=3 gives this opportunity.
With this, you can do something such as   /**
   * example of synthesizing HTML code to a Writer using
   * class SHTMLWriter
   * @param fileName the name of the file to write HTML to
  public void writeHTML(String fileName) {
    try {
      FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(fileName);
      SHTMLWriter w = new SHTMLWriter(fw);
      w.startTag(HTML.Tag.HTML.toString(), null);
      w.startTag(HTML.Tag.BODY.toString(), null);
      SimpleAttributeSet set = new SimpleAttributeSet();
      set.addAttribute(CSS.Attribute.FONT_FAMILY, "SansSerif");
      set.addAttribute(CSS.Attribute.FONT_SIZE, "12");
      w.startTag(HTML.Tag.P.toString(), set);
      fw.write("some text");
      w.endTag(HTML.Tag.P.toString());
      w.endTag(HTML.Tag.BODY.toString());
      w.endTag(HTML.Tag.HTML.toString());
    catch(Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
  }The HTML output is hard coded in this example. Certainly any HTML code can be created dynamically/programmatically instead. Class SHTMLWriter is partly meant as a convenience class for writing HTML. One can just through start and end tags as in above example. In the start tag any valid AttributeSet can be given.
HTH
Ulrich