Wednesday, November 22, 2006 2:30 PM | rahel luethy | 1 comment(s)

syntax highlighting

the virus has left the building, so i happened to have a free evening yesternight. parts of it i spent integrating the dp.SyntaxHighlighter into this blog. it does exactly what it says on the tin: syntax highlighting (based on javascript/css).

so finally, i've escaped the eclipse → ksnapshot → gimp → flickr waterfall, and my recent enum code now looks like this:

package ch.netzwerg; public enum MyMagicEnum { FOO { public String getMagicValue(MagicData data) { return data.getFoo() + "fooMagic"; } }, BAR { public String getMagicValue(MagicData data) { return data.getBar() + "barMagic"; } }; public abstract String getMagicValue(MagicData data); }

loads of different, language-specific brushes are available, and it lets you fiddle around with the decorations (line-, column-numbering, tabbing, etc.).

to show just one more example, here's an XML snippet from yesterday's The Daily WTF post (it's titled "XML vs CSV : The Choice is Obvious" and it's hilarious, isn't it?):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso8859-1" ?> <import tag="1stTEST" type="data" mode="update"> <options> <dateformat mmddyyyy="true"/> <notification> <EMail>example@example.com</EMail> </notification> </options> <fields> <field name="name" type="char" mapsto="person.data"/> <field name="officeid" type="char" mapsto="custom.locationid"/> <field name="startyear" type="char" mapsto="person.yearstarted"/> <field name="personelid" type="int" mapsto="person.id"/> <field name="dob" type="date" mapsto="person.dateofbith"/> <field name="sex" type="char" mapsto="person.sex"/> <field name="modified" type="date" mapsto="record.modified"/> </fields> <csvdata columnheaders="false"> <![CDATA[ "Jack Wade",214,2002,111012,07/04/1975,"M",02/11/2006 "Sam Davidson",214,1999,104841,10/15/1967,"M",02/10/2006 "Denise V Law",214,1998,104660,01/21/1971,"F",02/17/2006 "Lisa Blake",214,1989,100987,08/01/1982,"F",01/21/2006 "Andrew Match",214,1991,101074,12/25/1980,"M",02/28/2006 ]]> </csvdata> </import>

5:43 PM |  Anonymous said...

That's nice. As for hilarious? More like familiar.....