jsoup to strip only html tags not new line character?

Question

I have below content in Java where I want to strip only html tags but not new line characters

test1 test2 test 3 
 //lin         


        

Answer 1

You get a single line because text() remove all whitepace characters. But you can use a StringBuilder and insert each line there:

final String html = "
test1 test2 test 3 
"
                    + "
test4 
";

Document doc = Jsoup.parse(html);        
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();


for( Element element : doc.select("p") )
{
    /*
     * element.text() returns the text of this element (= without tags).
     */
    sb.append(element.text()).append('\n');
}

System.out.println(sb.toString().trim());

Output:

test1 test2 test 3
test4