Re: your mail

Greetings,

[cc'd to the list]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:49:13AM +0800, #VIKRAM BALKRISHNAN NATARAJAN# wrote:

> Thanks a lot for your prompt reply.
> I wanted to ask you a few fundamental questions before I can start using
> JTidy to know that I am on the right track.
> 
> 1: Can JTidy be easily used with my java program to parse and structure HTML
> pages. 

Yes (although it depends on your definition of "easily" -- you have to
know a bit of DOM to do this. See my article at 

     <http://lempinen.net:8180/Forum/975361475/>

for an introduction. The project documentation at

    <http://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=13153>

contains more code fragments.

> 2: Other than parsing can JTidy be used to retrieve only the text from say a
> web page of www.cnn.com i.e. retrieve the text of a news site article.

I would do this *after* parsing: first open a stream from an URL, pass
the stream to JTidy and extract the DOM tree. Then, use the DOM to
extract the textual contents.

Yours,

-Sami

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