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+/* -*- Mode: C; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+/**
+ 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"
+
+%{C++
+// {77c0e42a-1dd2-11b2-8ebf-edc6606f2f4b}
+#define MOZITXTTOHTMLCONV_CID \
+ { 0x77c0e42a, 0x1dd2, 0x11b2, \
+ { 0x8e, 0xbf, 0xed, 0xc6, 0x60, 0x6f, 0x2f, 0x4b } }
+
+#define MOZ_TXTTOHTMLCONV_CONTRACTID \
+ "@mozilla.org/txttohtmlconv;1"
+
+%}
+
+[scriptable, uuid(77c0e42a-1dd2-11b2-8ebf-edc6606f2f4b)]
+interface mozITXTToHTMLConv : nsIStreamConverter {
+ const unsigned long kEntities = 0; // just convert < & > to &lt; &amp; and &gt;
+ 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.
+ */
+ AString scanTXT(in AString 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.
+ */
+ AString scanHTML(in AString 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(in wstring line,
+ out unsigned long logLineStart);
+
+/**
+ @param a wide string to scan for the presence of a URL.
+ @param aLength --> the length of the buffer to be scanned
+ @param aPos --> the position in the buffer to start scanning for a url
+
+ aStartPos --> index into the start of a url (-1 if no url found)
+ aEndPos --> index of the last character in the url (-1 if no url found)
+ */
+
+ void findURLInPlaintext(in wstring text, in long aLength, in long aPos, out long aStartPos, out long aEndPos);
+};