Parsing HTML strings in Java: How to do it

Question

Given the string "

Hello World!"

", get the ( What is the simplest method?

Answer 1

If you have a string containing HTML, you can use the Jsoup library like this to get the HTML elements:

String htmlTable= "<table><tr><td>Hello World!</td></tr></table>";
Document doc = Jsoup.parse(htmlTable);

// then use something like this to get your element:
Elements tds = doc.getElementsByTag("td");

// tds will contain this one element: <td>Hello World!</td>

Answer 2

I found this somewhere (can’t remember where):

public static DocumentFragment parseXml(Document doc, String fragment)
 {
    // Wrap the fragment in an arbitrary element.
    fragment = "<fragment>"+fragment+"</fragment>";
    try
    {
        // Create a DOM builder and parse the fragment.
        DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        Document d = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(
                new InputSource(new StringReader(fragment)));

        // Import the nodes of the new document into doc so that they
        // will be compatible with doc.
        Node node = doc.importNode(d.getDocumentElement(), true);

        // Create the document fragment node to hold the new nodes.
        DocumentFragment docfrag = doc.createDocumentFragment();

        // Move the nodes into the fragment.
        while (node.hasChildNodes())
        {
            docfrag.appendChild(node.removeChild(node.getFirstChild()));
        }
        // Return the fragment.
        return docfrag;
    }
    catch (SAXException e)
    {
        // A parsing error occurred; the XML input is not valid.
    }
    catch (ParserConfigurationException e)
    {
    }
    catch (IOException e)
    {
    }
    return null;
}