Java BBCode library [closed]

Answer 1

The current version of KefirBB 0.6 is not listed as beta anymore. I find the KefirBB parser very easy to configure and extend with my own tags:

kefir-bb.sourceforge.net

(This is the best BBCode parser I've found so far)

I also found this code at fyhao.com, but it does protect you against incorrectly nested tags (thus not suitable for parsing user entered input):

    public static String bbcode(String text) {
        String html = text;

        Map bbMap = new HashMap();

        bbMap.put("(\r\n|\r|\n|\n\r)", "
");
        bbMap.put("\\[b\\](.+?)\\[/b\\]", "$1");
        bbMap.put("\\[i\\](.+?)\\[/i\\]", "$1");
        bbMap.put("\\[u\\](.+?)\\[/u\\]", "$1");
        bbMap.put("\\[h1\\](.+?)\\[/h1\\]", "
$1
");
        bbMap.put("\\[h2\\](.+?)\\[/h2\\]", "
$1
");
        bbMap.put("\\[h3\\](.+?)\\[/h3\\]", "
$1
");
        bbMap.put("\\[h4\\](.+?)\\[/h4\\]", "
$1
");
        bbMap.put("\\[h5\\](.+?)\\[/h5\\]", "
$1
");
        bbMap.put("\\[h6\\](.+?)\\[/h6\\]", "
$1
");
        bbMap.put("\\[quote\\](.+?)\\[/quote\\]", "
$1
");
        bbMap.put("\\[p\\](.+?)\\[/p\\]", "
$1
");
        bbMap.put("\\[p=(.+?),(.+?)\\](.+?)\\[/p\\]", "
$3
");
        bbMap.put("\\[center\\](.+?)\\[/center\\]", "
$1");
        bbMap.put("\\[align=(.+?)\\](.+?)\\[/align\\]", "
$2");
        bbMap.put("\\[color=(.+?)\\](.+?)\\[/color\\]", "$2");
        bbMap.put("\\[size=(.+?)\\](.+?)\\[/size\\]", "$2");
        bbMap.put("\\[img\\](.+?)\\[/img\\]", "");
        bbMap.put("\\[img=(.+?),(.+?)\\](.+?)\\[/img\\]", "");
        bbMap.put("\\[email\\](.+?)\\[/email\\]", "$1");
        bbMap.put("\\[email=(.+?)\\](.+?)\\[/email\\]", "$2");
        bbMap.put("\\[url\\](.+?)\\[/url\\]", "$1");
        bbMap.put("\\[url=(.+?)\\](.+?)\\[/url\\]", "$2");
        bbMap.put("\\[youtube\\](.+?)\\[/youtube\\]", "");
        bbMap.put("\\[video\\](.+?)\\[/video\\]", "

BTW javaBBcode is part of opensource project: JavaBB.