cocoon-pipeline-impl/cocoon-pipeline-impl-1.0.0-RC1/src/main/java/org/apache/cocoon/transformation/helpers/TextRecorder.java

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package org.apache.cocoon.transformation.helpers;

/**
 * This class records all character SAX events and creates a string
 * from them.
 *
 * @version $Id$
 */
public final class TextRecorder extends NOPRecorder {

    /**
     * Buffer collecting all character events.
     */
    private StringBuffer buffer;

    public TextRecorder() {
        super();
        this.buffer = new StringBuffer();
    }

    public void characters(char ary[], int start, int length) {
        this.buffer.append(ary, start, length);
    }

    /**
     * @return Recorded text so far, trimmed.
     */
    public String getText() {
        return this.buffer.toString().trim();
    }
}