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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3 Answers
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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vivek_jonam
I don't want to extract A and B but the other values 234 and 690
João Silva
@vivek_jonam: Then use
text() instead, which gives you the content of span. I've edited my answer.vivek_jonam
ok. works. But can i get the values with A and B alone? there are other itemprop values like A1, C, E, etc.
João Silva
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].JSoup is the way to go.
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JTidy is a confusingly named yet respected HTML parser.
