Question

I am looking for a java library which can inline an external CSS file with a HTML document based on its ID/class attributes.

I’ve found jStyleParser but I am not sure if this is the right library for me. I seem to fail to understand if it can do the job of inlining the CSS on the elements from the HTML. The documentation and examples is not what I expected.

Is there anyone who can answer that question or does there exist another library for this?

Thanks

Answer 1

You may try CSSBox. Just take a look at the ComputeStyles demo contained in the package (see the doc/examples/README file in the distribution package for information about running the demo). It computes all the styles and creates a new HTML document (represented by a DOM) with the corresponding inline style definitions.

The source is in src/org/fit/cssbox/demo/ComputeStyles.java and it’s pretty short. Actually, it uses jStyleParser for doing the main job, CSSBox just provides a nicer interface for this.

        //Open the network connection 
        DocumentSource docSource = new DefaultDocumentSource(args[0]);

        //Parse the input document
        DOMSource parser = new DefaultDOMSource(docSource);
        Document doc = parser.parse();

        //Create the CSS analyzer
        DOMAnalyzer da = new DOMAnalyzer(doc, docSource.getURL());
        da.attributesToStyles(); //convert the HTML presentation attributes to inline styles
        da.addStyleSheet(null, CSSNorm.stdStyleSheet(), DOMAnalyzer.Origin.AGENT); //use the standard style sheet
        da.addStyleSheet(null, CSSNorm.userStyleSheet(), DOMAnalyzer.Origin.AGENT); //use the additional style sheet
        da.getStyleSheets(); //load the author style sheets

        //Compute the styles
        System.err.println("Computing style...");
        da.stylesToDomInherited();

        //Save the output
        PrintStream os = new PrintStream(new FileOutputStream(args[1]));
        Output out = new NormalOutput(doc);
        out.dumpTo(os);
        os.close();

        docSource.close();