at.knowcenter.wag.egov.egiz.tools
Class NormalizeV01

java.lang.Object
  at.knowcenter.wag.egov.egiz.tools.NormalizeV01

All Implemented Interfaces:

Normalize, Serializable

public class NormalizeV01
extends Object
implements Normalize, Serializable

This ist the first version implementing a normalizer method. The normalize statements are performed by using regular expressions.

Author:

wlackner

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Serialized Form

Field Summary

protected static String

VERSION The current version string

Constructor Summary

NormalizeV01()
The empty constructor.

Method Summary

String	getNormCR() Returns the normalizer line separator string.
String	getVersion() Return the version string.
String	normalize(String rawText) The normalizer implementation.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

VERSION

protected static final String VERSION

The current version string

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

NormalizeV01

public NormalizeV01()

The empty constructor.

Method Detail

normalize

public String normalize(String rawText)

The normalizer implementation.
Normalizer algorithums:

1. code all multiple line breaks as \n\n
2. replace all Tabs and form feeds with spaces
3. code line breaks as \n
4. reduce all multiple line breaks into one line break, code line break as \r
5. replace all single line breaks with space
6. normalize spaces
7. remove spaces before and after a line break
8. remove leading and trailing space or line break in the string
9. normalize line breaks
10. normalize apostrophes
11. normalize quotations
12. normalize hypens

Specified by:

normalize in interface Normalize

Parameters:

rawText - the raw text to normalize

Returns:

the normalized string

See Also:

Normalize.normalize(java.lang.String)

getVersion

public String getVersion()

Return the version string.

Specified by:

getVersion in interface Normalize

Returns:

the version string

See Also:

Normalize.getVersion()

getNormCR

public String getNormCR()

Returns the normalizer line separator string.

Specified by:

getNormCR in interface Normalize

Returns:

the line separator string