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Re: How to read attributes of an HTML page

#8445
From: Rich Wilkman
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 00:00
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Anand:

It's just a file no matter where you read it from.  Web 'scraping' isn't
difficult; just tedious and slow if you have to analyise the file one
character at a time.  It's a little easier if you have a general idea of
where in the file the attribute will fall.

-Rich

My News Group wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>   That is fine..but my problem is I want to read the attributes of HTML page
> on the servlet.
> 
> How can i achieve this..?
> 
> Thanks
> Anand
> 
> Olaf Raether <o.raether@windsoft.de> wrote in message
> news:399d0907.16636271@forums.inprise.com...
> > Hey Anand,
> >
> > In my opinion there a two ways.
> >
> > 1)
> > if you only want read just some attributes from a page, i would
> > prefer regular expression to get the information out of the page.
> > An regex implementation for java can found at
> > http://jakarta.apache.org
> >
> > 2)
> > if you have to analyse the hole page, then you need an html parser.
> > You can find one at http://www.w3c.org. it�s called html tidy.
> > There�s a java version available too.
> >
> > Olaf Raether
> > o.raether@windsoft.de
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 14:52:23 +0530, "My News Group"
> > <amudliar@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >Hi,
> > >   I have the URL of the HTML page, now i want to read the attributes
> such
> > >as background color etc. How vcan i achieve this??
> > >
> > >Sample code is appreciated.
> > >
> > >Hint : HTMLDocument class models the HTML page.
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >Anand
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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