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Writing Your Own RTF Converter

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An article on how to write a custom RTF parser and converter.
// -- FILE ------------------------------------------------------------------
// name       : RtfUserPropertyBuilder.cs
// project    : RTF Framelet
// created    : Leon Poyyayil - 2008.05.23
// language   : c#
// environment: .NET 2.0
// copyright  : (c) 2004-2013 by Jani Giannoudis, Switzerland
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------
using System;
using Itenso.Rtf.Model;
using Itenso.Rtf.Support;

namespace Itenso.Rtf.Interpreter
{

	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
	public sealed class RtfUserPropertyBuilder : RtfElementVisitorBase
	{

		// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
		public RtfUserPropertyBuilder( RtfDocumentPropertyCollection collectedProperties ) :
			base( RtfElementVisitorOrder.NonRecursive )
		{
			// we iterate over our children ourselves -> hence non-recursive
			if ( collectedProperties == null )
			{
				throw new ArgumentNullException( "collectedProperties" );
			}
			this.collectedProperties = collectedProperties;
		} // RtfUserPropertyBuilder

		// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
		public IRtfDocumentProperty CreateProperty()
		{
			return new RtfDocumentProperty( propertyTypeCode, propertyName, staticValue, linkValue );
		} // CreateProperty

		// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
		public void Reset()
		{
			propertyTypeCode = 0;
			propertyName = null;
			staticValue = null;
			linkValue = null;
		} // Reset

		// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
		protected override void DoVisitGroup( IRtfGroup group )
		{
			switch ( group.Destination )
			{
				case RtfSpec.TagUserProperties:
					VisitGroupChildren( group );
					break;
				case null:
					Reset();
					VisitGroupChildren( group );
					collectedProperties.Add( CreateProperty() );
					break;
				case RtfSpec.TagUserPropertyName:
					textBuilder.Reset();
					textBuilder.VisitGroup( group );
					propertyName = textBuilder.CombinedText;
					break;
				case RtfSpec.TagUserPropertyValue:
					textBuilder.Reset();
					textBuilder.VisitGroup( group );
					staticValue = textBuilder.CombinedText;
					break;
				case RtfSpec.TagUserPropertyLink:
					textBuilder.Reset();
					textBuilder.VisitGroup( group );
					linkValue = textBuilder.CombinedText;
					break;
			}
		} // DoVisitGroup

		// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
		protected override void DoVisitTag( IRtfTag tag )
		{
			switch ( tag.Name )
			{
				case RtfSpec.TagUserPropertyType:
					propertyTypeCode = tag.ValueAsNumber;
					break;
			}
		} // DoVisitTag

		// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
		// members
		private readonly RtfDocumentPropertyCollection collectedProperties;
		private readonly RtfTextBuilder textBuilder = new RtfTextBuilder();
		private int propertyTypeCode;
		private string propertyName;
		private string staticValue;
		private string linkValue;

	} // class RtfUserPropertyBuilder

} // namespace Itenso.Rtf.Interpreter
// -- EOF -------------------------------------------------------------------

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