Re: HTML Processing in Java


"Honza" <jan.zeman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1133255497.231778.229120@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello,
>
> I would like to process html pages in java. The very first task would
> be to ignore unnecessary information like comments (everything in <!--
> -->) or images.
> What would be the best start point?
> I have found JTidy and HTML Parser in SourceForge, but none of them is
> able of ignoring tags - or did I miss it?
>
> Thank you for any clue
> Honza

Haven't used the parsers you're talking about, but if you find any SAX
based parser, you'll just receive a bunch of "events" representing the
discovery of "things" in an HTML document, and you can just ignore the
"comment" events.

- Oliver


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