Parsing HTML in Java?

Question

I want to parse an HTML file for these reasons:

To the get the content between tags. For example, between a pair of para tags
To find the occurrence of break tags
To get the attributes of a tag. For example, to get the value of COLOR in FONT COLOR="red">

I need to do this in Java. I know the basics of the Jehrico parser. How can I do it?

There was some formating error i guess. Did u understand the question now? — Saicharan S M, Mar 12 '12 at 10:09

score 10 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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There are no. of Java HTML parsers available like:

You might also want to go through a very comprehensive discussion on pros and cons of using each of these here.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

Community

answered Mar 12 '12 at 09:52

Umer Hayat

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I used jsoup before and found it pretty good for what I needed to do. – Joeblackdev Mar 12 '12 at 10:00

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 12 '12 at 09:52

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If the HTML you want to parse is XHTML it should be valid XML too. So any XML parser should be able to parse it.

If you can not rely on that, you can search Google for HTML parsers for Java.

answered Mar 12 '12 at 09:52

Jan Gräfen

Can HTML be converted to XHTML on the fly in java? – Saicharan S M Mar 12 '12 at 10:06
I think JTidy should be able to that job. – Jan Gräfen Mar 12 '12 at 10:15

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