HTML Parser Help Please

From: ZOCOR (someone_at_somewhere.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:41:13 GMT

Hi

I am using HTMLEditorKit.Parser class to parse a HTML file. However, I have
found this Swing HTML parser extremely difficult to use.

I am trying to parse a HTML file and extracting specific information from it
into a table. Consider the snippet of my HTML and the table I like it to
generate:

HTML source:

<HTML>
<TITLE></TITLE>
<BODY>
<PRE>
    Identifer: ABCDEFG
</PRE>
    data: 123456
<PRE>
</PRE>
</BODY>
</HTML>

TABLE:

ABCDEFG 123456

Here is the code I have so far:

import javax.swing.text.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.*;
import java.io.*;

public class HTMLParser extends HTMLEditorKit
{
    public HTMLEditorKit.Parser getParser()
    {
        return super.getParser();
    }

    public static void main (String[] args)
    {
        try
        {
            Reader r = new FileReader("html_file.html");
            HTMLEditor.Parser parse = new HTMLParser.getParser()
            HTMLEditorKit.ParserCallback cb =
            {
                public void handleStartTag(HTML.Tag t, MutableAttributeSet
a, int a)
                {
                    if (t==HTML.Tag.PRE)
                    {
                            //print whats between the pre tag
                    }
                }
                public void handleText(char[] data, int pos)
                {
                    //print whats between the pre tags
                }
            };

            parse.parse(r, cb, true);
        }
        catch (IOException e)
        {
            System.out.println(e);
        }
}
}

I would appreciate it very much if someone could solve this problem for me.
I tried the sun tutortial, but the examples aren't that clear enough for me.

Thanks

ZOCOR 

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