Name: rm29839 Date: 02/26/98


What I'd like to see is a way of automatically parsing an Author's e-mail address
so that it gets formatted nicely for HTML output.

An e-mail address in the author field should be quite easy to pick out,
since it will be easily detectable using a regular expression (probably
even integratable into the lexical analyser for javadoc ...)

Once the e-mail address has been detected, then it would be nice to have:

@author Alex Blewitt <###@###.###>

translated into:

Alex Blewitt &lt;<a href="mailto:###@###.###"><address>###@###.###</address></a>&gt;

I'm not sure if the specific <> could be detected/would want to be detected or passed through as an HTML tag or not.
The only reason for suggesting the <> is because that a fair number of (text based) e-mail programs use it
to determine the difference between a
text display name and an e-mail address.
(Review ID: 25703)
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