Question

Could please anybody recommend libraries that are able to do the opposite thing than these libraries ?

HtmlCleaner, TagSoup, HtmlParser, HtmlUnit, jSoup, jTidy, nekoHtml, WebHarvest or Jericho.

I need to build html pages, build the DOM model from String content.

EDIT: I need it for testing purposes. I have various types of input/strings that might be in the html page on various places… So I need to dynamically build it up… I then process the html page based on various criterions that must be fulfilled or not.

I will show you why I asked this question, consider htmlCleaner for this job :

List<String> paragraphs = getParagraphs(entity.getFile());
List<TagNode> pNodes = new ArrayList<TagNode>();

TagNode html = cleaner.clean("<html/>");
for(String paragraph : paragraphs) {                
    TagNode p = new TagNode("p");
    pNodes.add(p);
    // CANNOT setText() ?
}
html.addChildren(pNodes);

The problem is that TagNode has getText() method, but no setText() method ….

Please add more comments about how vague this question is … The best thing you can do

Answer 1

If you are interested in HtmlCleaner particularly, it is actually a very convenient choice for building html documents.

But you must know that if you want to set content to a TagNode, you append a child ContentNode element 🙂

List<String> paragraphs = getParagraphs(entity.getFile());
List<TagNode> pNodes = new ArrayList<TagNode>();

TagNode html = new TagNode("html");
for(String paragraph : paragraphs) {                
    TagNode p = new TagNode("p");
    p.addChild(new ContentNode(paragraph));
    pNodes.add(p);
}
html.addChildren(pNodes);