public SAXmyHtmlHandler(DocListener document) 
{
                                                    
        super(document, new HtmlTagMap());
}

Constructs a new SAXiTextHandler that will translate all the events triggered by the parser to actions on the Document-object.

Parameters:

document - this is the document on which events must be triggered

 public SAXmyHtmlHandler(DocListener document,
    BaseFont bf) 
{
        super(document, new HtmlTagMap(), bf);
}

Constructs a new SAXiTextHandler that will translate all the events triggered by the parser to actions on the Document-object.

Parameters:

document - this is the document on which events must be triggered

bf -

 public SAXmyHtmlHandler(DocListener document,
    HashMap htmlTags) 
{
        super(document, htmlTags);
}

Constructs a new SAXiTextHandler that will translate all the events triggered by the parser to actions on the Document-object.

Parameters:

document - this is the document on which events must be triggered

htmlTags - a tagmap translating HTML tags to iText tags

 public  void endElement(String uri,
    String lname,
    String name) 
{
        // System.err.println("End: " + name);
    	name = name.toLowerCase();
        if (ElementTags.PARAGRAPH.equals(name)) {
            try {
                document.add((Element) stack.pop());
                return;
            } catch (DocumentException e) {
                throw new ExceptionConverter(e);
            }
        }
        if (HtmlTagMap.isHead(name)) {
            // we do nothing
            return;
        }
        if (HtmlTagMap.isTitle(name)) {
            if (currentChunk != null) {
                bodyAttributes.put(ElementTags.TITLE, currentChunk.getContent());
            }
            return;
        }
        if (HtmlTagMap.isMeta(name)) {
            // we do nothing
            return;
        }
        if (HtmlTagMap.isLink(name)) {
            // we do nothing
            return;
        }
        if (HtmlTagMap.isBody(name)) {
            // we do nothing
            return;
        }
        if (myTags.containsKey(name)) {
            XmlPeer peer = (XmlPeer) myTags.get(name);
            if (ElementTags.TABLE.equals(peer.getTag())) {
                tableBorder = false;
            }
            super.handleEndingTags(peer.getTag());
            return;
        }
        // super.handleEndingTags is replaced with handleEndingTags
        // suggestion by Ken Auer
        handleEndingTags(name);
}

This method gets called when an end tag is encountered.

 public  void startElement(String uri,
    String lname,
    String name,
    Attributes attrs) 
{
        // System.err.println("Start: " + name);
        // super.handleStartingTags is replaced with handleStartingTags
        // suggestion by Vu Ngoc Tan/Hop
    	name = name.toLowerCase();
        if (HtmlTagMap.isHtml(name)) {
            // we do nothing
            return;
        }
        if (HtmlTagMap.isHead(name)) {
            // we do nothing
            return;
        }
        if (HtmlTagMap.isTitle(name)) {
            // we do nothing
            return;
        }
        if (HtmlTagMap.isMeta(name)) {
            // we look if we can change the body attributes
            String meta = null;
            String content = null;
            if (attrs != null) {
                for (int i = 0; i <  attrs.getLength(); i++) {
                    String attribute = attrs.getQName(i);
                    if (attribute.equalsIgnoreCase(HtmlTags.CONTENT))
                        content = attrs.getValue(i);
                    else if (attribute.equalsIgnoreCase(HtmlTags.NAME))
                        meta = attrs.getValue(i);
                }
            }
            if (meta != null && content != null) {
                bodyAttributes.put(meta, content);
            }
            return;
        }
        if (HtmlTagMap.isLink(name)) {
            // we do nothing for the moment, in a later version we could extract
            // the style sheet
            return;
        }
        if (HtmlTagMap.isBody(name)) {
            // maybe we could extract some info about the document: color,
            // margins,...
            // but that's for a later version...
            XmlPeer peer = new XmlPeer(ElementTags.ITEXT, name);
            peer.addAlias(ElementTags.TOP, HtmlTags.TOPMARGIN);
            peer.addAlias(ElementTags.BOTTOM, HtmlTags.BOTTOMMARGIN);
            peer.addAlias(ElementTags.RIGHT, HtmlTags.RIGHTMARGIN);
            peer.addAlias(ElementTags.LEFT, HtmlTags.LEFTMARGIN);
            bodyAttributes.putAll(peer.getAttributes(attrs));
            handleStartingTags(peer.getTag(), bodyAttributes);
            return;
        }
        if (myTags.containsKey(name)) {
            XmlPeer peer = (XmlPeer) myTags.get(name);
            if (ElementTags.TABLE.equals(peer.getTag()) || ElementTags.CELL.equals(peer.getTag())) {
                Properties p = peer.getAttributes(attrs);
                String value;
                if (ElementTags.TABLE.equals(peer.getTag())
                        && (value = p.getProperty(ElementTags.BORDERWIDTH)) != null) {
                    if (Float.parseFloat(value + "f")  > 0) {
                        tableBorder = true;
                    }
                }
                if (tableBorder) {
                    p.put(ElementTags.LEFT, String.valueOf(true));
                    p.put(ElementTags.RIGHT, String.valueOf(true));
                    p.put(ElementTags.TOP, String.valueOf(true));
                    p.put(ElementTags.BOTTOM, String.valueOf(true));
                }
                handleStartingTags(peer.getTag(), p);
                return;
            }
            handleStartingTags(peer.getTag(), peer.getAttributes(attrs));
            return;
        }
        Properties attributes = new Properties();
        if (attrs != null) {
            for (int i = 0; i <  attrs.getLength(); i++) {
                String attribute = attrs.getQName(i).toLowerCase();
                attributes.setProperty(attribute, attrs.getValue(i).toLowerCase());
            }
        }
        handleStartingTags(name, attributes);
}

This method gets called when a start tag is encountered.