I'd like to find all text in correct html file. Example:
<div style="color: red;">text<span>another text</span>another text<img src="some_image"/></div>
How can i do that in java?
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Nyger
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by text u meant plain text? – Rinku Jun 07 '13 at 07:21
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3Regular Expressions are generally considered a bad idea for parsing HTML. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags – Rajesh J Advani Jun 07 '13 at 07:27
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Something like JSoup will get you the plain text content first – Alexandre Lavoie Jun 07 '13 at 07:27
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Rinku yes I mean plain text. I'm wrote something like this: >([^<>]+)< but is not good enough. When I add lookahead it stop working (?=>)([^<>]+)(?=<). – Nyger Jun 07 '13 at 07:53
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I think you'll find some good answers for this here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/240546/removing-html-from-a-java-string – Francis Gagnon Jun 07 '13 at 16:33
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As pointed out, Regex is a bad idea. I think to parse HTML probably the most well known library is jSoup and a very nice tutorial by MK Yong is here
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Try Apache Tika http://tika.apache.org/0.7/gettingstarted.html
Example Using Tika for .html: How can I use the HTML parser with Apache Tika in Java to extract all HTML tags?
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