I have a html file like the following
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<span itemprop="A">234</span>
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<span itemprop="B">690</span>
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In this i want to extract values as A and B.
Can u suggest any html parser library for java that can do this easily?
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vivek_jonam
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Personally, I favour JSoup over JTidy. It has CSS-like selectors, and the documentation is much better, imho. With JSoup, you can easily extract those values with the following lines:
Document doc = Jsoup.connect("your_url").get();
Elements spans = doc.select("span[itemprop]");
for (Element span : spans) {
System.out.println(span.text()); // will print 234 and 690
}
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I don't want to extract A and B but the other values 234 and 690 – vivek_jonam Aug 15 '12 at 14:27
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1@vivek_jonam: Then use `text()` instead, which gives you the content of `span`. I've edited my answer. – João Silva Aug 15 '12 at 14:28
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ok. works. But can i get the values with A and B alone? there are other itemprop values like A1, C, E, etc. – vivek_jonam Aug 15 '12 at 14:33
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Yes, there are two ways of doing this. 1) When you are iterating over each span element, you can check if `span.attr("itemprop")` equals `A` or `B`; 2) You can run two selects, one with `span[itemprop=A]` and the other with `span[itemprop=B]`. – João Silva Aug 15 '12 at 14:34
