HTML parsing in Android

Question

I am trying to learn how to parse HTML, but as I don\'t have a lot of experience in either Java or Android, it\'s a little complicated. I have read the IBM XML parsing tutor

Answer 1

IMO there are two easy ways to parse HTML:

• Convert the HML to XML (XHTML) using a library (e.g. HTMLTidy) and then use an XML parser
• Use an existing HTML parser (e.g. a standard Web browser like WebKit, ForeFox, and/or IE) and then read the "DOM" which is a more-or-less-API-friendly representation of the parsed HTML

Alternatively, if you want to write your own parser (which I doubt you should, for homework: it would be long and complicated to implement it properly/completely), see the specs for parsing HTML.

Answer 2

Check out the following HTML parsers. There are more out there. Maybe one will work for you:

• HTMLCleaner: http://htmlcleaner.sourceforge.net/

• TagSoup: http://ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/

• Jericho: http://jericho.htmlparser.net/docs/index.html