function highlight($str)
{
if (!$this->_renderer) {
include_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/Renderer/Html.php';
$this->_renderer = new Text_Highlighter_Renderer_Html($this->_options);
}
$this->_state = -1;
$this->_pos = 0;
$this->_stack = array();
$this->_tokenStack = array();
$this->_lastinner = $this->_defClass;
$this->_lastdelim = $this->_defClass;
$this->_endpattern = '';
$this->_renderer->reset();
$this->_renderer->setCurrentLanguage($this->_language);
$this->_str = $this->_renderer->preprocess($str);
$this->_len = strlen($this->_str);
while ($token = $this->_getToken()) {
$this->_renderer->acceptToken($token[0], $token[1]);
}
$this->_renderer->finalize();
return $this->_renderer->getOutput();
}