Re: Parsing HTML

From:

Mark Space <markspace@sbc.global.net>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.help

Date:

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:01:44 -0800

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m_gallivan12@hotmail.com wrote:

Now, is that what you want? Or are you looking for something totally
different?

Honestly - I don't know. That subject looks a bit too advanced for
me. I think I've found an approach using Python which might allow me
to transfer some knowledge over to JAVA later on. Thanks for your
time.

Well, the basics of J2EE are pretty simple, but I think perhaps this
means you really are looking for something else.

Then I think the easiest XML parser in Java is XPath. Lightweight on
the memory and doesn't require a lot of interface classes. You can get
an XPath parser as easy as

XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();

Then to parse

String result = xpath.evaluate("search/field", source );

For some variable name "source" that already exists. I got this info
out of Learning Java btw, a book by O'Reilly. I had to stop being lazy
and get up and get it off the bookshelf. Sometimes a good book is
better than Google, and this is definitely one of those books. I highly
recommend Learning Java.