pjs/netwerk/streamconv/public/mozITXTToHTMLConv.idl

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/**
  Description: Currently only functions to enhance plain text with HTML tags.
  <p>
  Wrapper class for various parsing routines, that convert plain text to HTML.
  They try to recognize cites, URLs, plain text formattting like *bold* etc.
  See <http://www.bucksch.org/1/projects/mozilla/16507/> for a description.
 */

#include "nsIStreamConverter.idl"
#include "nsrootidl.idl"

%{C++
// {77c0e42a-1dd2-11b2-8ebf-edc6606f2f4b}
#define MOZITXTTOHTMLCONV_CID \
    { 0x77c0e42a, 0x1dd2, 0x11b2, \
    { 0x8e, 0xbf, 0xed, 0xc6, 0x60, 0x6f, 0x2f, 0x4b } }
%}

[scriptable, uuid(77c0e42a-1dd2-11b2-8ebf-edc6606f2f4b)]
interface mozITXTToHTMLConv : nsIStreamConverter {

  const unsigned long kURLs = 1 << 1;
  const unsigned long kGlyphSubstitution = 1 << 2;  // Smilies, &reg; etc.
  const unsigned long kStructPhrase = 1 << 3;       // E.g. *bold* -> <strong>

/**
  @param text: plain text to scan. May be a line, paragraph (recommended)
               or just a substring.<p>
               Must be non-escaped, pure unicode.<p>
               <em>Note:</em> ScanTXT(a, o) + ScanTXT(b, o) may be !=
               Scan(a + b, o)
  @param whattodo: Bitfield describing the modes of operation
  @result      "<", ">" and "&" are escaped and HTML tags are inserted where
               appropriate.
 */
  wstring   scanTXT([const] in wstring text, in unsigned long whattodo);

/**
  Adds additional formatting to user edited text, that the user was too lazy
  or "unknowledged" (DELETEME: is that a word?) to make.
  <p>
  <em>Note:</em> Don't use kGlyphSubstitution with this function. This option
  generates tags, that are unuseable for UAs other than Mozilla. This would
  be a data loss bug.

  @param text: HTML source to scan. May be a line, paragraph (recommended)
               or just a substring.<p>
               Must be correct HTML. "<", ">" and "&" must be escaped,
               other chars must be pure unicode.<p>
               <em>Note:</em> ScanTXT(a, o) + ScanTXT(b, o) may be !=
               Scan(a + b, o)
  @param whattodo: Bitfield describing the modes of operation
  @result      Additional HTML tags are inserted where appropriate.
 */
  wstring   scanHTML([const] in wstring text, in unsigned long whattodo);

/**
  @param line: line in original msg, possibly starting starting with
               txt quote tags like ">"
  @param logLineStart: pos in line, where the real content (logical line)
               begins, i.e. pos after all txt quote tags.
               E.g. position of "t" in "> > text".
               Initial value must be 0, unless line is not real line.
  @return      Cite Level, i.e. number of txt quote tags found, i.e. number of
               nested quotes.
 */
  unsigned long   citeLevelTXT([const] in wstring line,
                               out unsigned long logLineStart);
};