Question

 <ContentFragment><![CDATA[<a target=_blank href=$click_tracking_url$&landing_url=https://www.foo.com><img src='urltoimage.jpg' border='0' alt='' /></a>]]></ContentFragment>

I have this xml segment of a file which i have access to ContentFragment via JAXB. and ContentFragment is a string.

I want to find out how can i capture if the a href is targeted for new window as well as if a click tracking url is there or not.

As far as what i have done, I can do a string.contains("_blank"); or string.contains("click_tracking_url"); then i can parse.

is there a better way to do it such as parsing a href into parts?

Answer 1

There are great Java libraries for parsing XML…

… and there are great Java libraries for parsing HTML …

… but for simply parsing out an “href” inside an <a> tag inside [CDATA] element:

String.contains() and String.indexOf() should be more than sufficient.

IMHO…