Question

I am working with XPATH, Java and want to extract some text out of one html page.
The text is located under some div with some whitespace characters in between, like &nbsp; <br> etc.
I want these to be converted into ‘space’ and ‘newline’ respectively while extracting.
The method I am using to extract text is Element.getTextContent() which does not respect whitespace characters.

Could somebody tell me if there is a way to extract text with whitespace normalization
OR
Extract whole html markup under the ‘Node’ so that i could replace it by myself.
Thanks
Nayn

Answer 1

<br> isn’t text content, it’s an element. I’m not sure what you’re looking for. Try just visiting all the text nodes underneath the element (remembering to recursively check element children) and calling getNodeValue();