Question

Exception is thrown when xml tag has colon,

Exception:

org.jsoup.select.Selector$SelectorParseException: Could not parse query ‘w:r’: unexpected token at ‘:r’

XML:

<w:r>
 <w:rPr>
   <w:rStyle w:val="jid"/>
 </w:rPr>
 <w:t>AN</w:t>
</w:r>

Java code:

    org.jsoup.nodes.Document doc = Jsoup.parse(documentXmlString);

Here documentXmlString has the xml specified above

Answer 1

I used,

 documentXmlString = documentXmlString.replaceAll("w:","w");