Question

I have a html file like the following

...
<span itemprop="A">234</span>
...
<span itemprop="B">690</span>
...

In this i want to extract values as A and B.

Can u suggest any html parser library for java that can do this easily?

Answer 1

Personally, I favour JSoup over JTidy. It has CSS-like selectors, and the documentation is much better, imho. With JSoup, you can easily extract those values with the following lines:

Document doc = Jsoup.connect("your_url").get();
Elements spans = doc.select("span[itemprop]");

for (Element span : spans) {
  System.out.println(span.text()); // will print 234 and 690
}