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HTML Parser for Java

 
Mazhar Ismail
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Hi All,

I want to parse HTML files using java and access nodes using java. Can anyone of you suggest which is the best and easy to learn HTML parser for java I can use.

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Akhilesh Trivedi
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Originally posted by Mazhar Ismail:
Hi All,

I want to parse HTML files using java and access nodes using java. Can anyone of you suggest which is the best and easy to learn HTML parser for java I can use.

Thanks,
Mazhar



can you please be more descriptive on where you are needing it?

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Form the above html file i have to read the tags and grab the term "Sales" within <td> tag using java. I know there are some HTML parsers for java suing which we can read the HTML file. I wanted to know what are the parsers available and which is the best to use.

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I would suggest you try xml. Rest is upto you.

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The JTidy open source toolkit can parse ill-formed HTML (not parsable by standard XML parsers) and give you a DOM view.

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I was just concenred if Mazhar want to parse syntax of an html doc or if he was needing a solution to carry data in markups?
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Tried JTidy and Jericho here. For the following sample.




The address tag has no end tag. With JTidy, the output file was empty. May be it was parsing node-wise and did not end up with finshing-address tag.

While output from FormatSource.jsp of Jericho Jericho was



Not bad. I suspect if Jericho will have a node-base-parsing, for JTidy I do see a class "org.w3c.tidy.Node" in the docs, but seems documentation has not been updated since 2000.
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Originally posted by Akhilesh Trivedi:
....with JTidy, the output file was empty. May be it was parsing node-wise and did not end up with finshing-address tag.
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Sorry just correcting myself. Tidy did output a file... here are the contents.



and here are the errors.

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