Comments on: Read HTML with Java – Then 7 Fun Things to do to It

By: MikeNereson

MikeNereson — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:14:09 +0000

@Yaniv - HtmlParser's way of working with the DOM is through the NodeList. There may not be any effective way of getting the full HTML from the Parser. The Parser documentation states The Parser provides access to the contents of the page, via a NodeIterator, a NodeList or a NodeVisitor. Typical usage of the parser is:

Parser parser = new Parser ("http://whatever");
 NodeList list = parser.parse (null);
 // do something with your list of nodes.

So I don't think there is any public method to access the HTML. You might have to write something yourself to access the Parser's underlying model. Good luck.

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By: Yaniv Yaniv — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:13:02 +0000 Thank you for this great article it's exactly what I needed. I have one question though: after changing the links href, how can I get the new html (the whole page html) from the parser? Thanks.Reply - Quote By: MikeNereson MikeNereson — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:02:03 +0000 @S. Metzger - : ) Thanks for reading and thanks for your comments.Reply - @S. Metzger<\/a> - : ) Thanks for reading and thanks for your comments.'); return false;">Quote By: S. Metzger S. Metzger — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:50:48 +0000 As a Java newcomer, i found this a very interesting read! Thanks for writing this article.Reply - Quote By: Sathya Narayanan K Sathya Narayanan K — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:06:00 +0000 Hi, Thanks for posting this blog on reading a html file. I have few clarification reg the code. please can you tell me how to declare the "htmlBody" variable , as it is not declared in this blog. Thanks in Advance, Sathya narayanan K.Reply - Quote By: Adil Adil — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:57:26 +0000 Hi I am having problem in extracting tag which is used for Css(stylesheet) i want to extract tag and after extracting i need its src attribute so i can have its source kindly help me out thanks in Advance Regards, Adil BadshahReply - Quote By: MikeNereson MikeNereson — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:43:26 +0000 Another fun thing to do is to print the HTML to PDF. I used iText for this on a project a couple of years ago www.lowagie.com/itextReply - www.lowagie.com\/itext<\/a>'); return false;">Quote