Question

I have the following html table element:

<table class='myTable'>
 <tbody>
   <tr>
    <th>header1</th>
    <td>data1</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <th>header2</th>
    <td><table><tbody><tr><th>subheader1</th><td>subdata1</td></tr>
                      <tr><th>subheader2</th><td>subdata2</td></tr>
                      </tbody></table></td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <th>header3</th>
    <td>data3</td>
   </tr>
   ....
 <tbody>
</table>

How could I select the headers in the table, where those headers’s next td element does not contain a table. In the case above, only select header header1 and header3.

What I have at the moment is

Elements elements = doc.select("table[class=" + myTable + "]);
Element table;
if(elements.size()>0){
  table = elements.get(0);
}
else{
  return someMyObj;
}
Iterator<Element> ite = table.select("th AND SOME CONDITIONS").iterator();
while(ite.hasNext()){
     Element header = ite.next();
}

Answer 1

Try this

    for (Element e : table.select(" > tbody > tr:not(:has(table)) > th")) {
        //DO SOMETHING WITH e
    }

The selector selects all th children of tr, that don’t contain table and in turn are children of tbody of the context element.

BTW I changed your while loop to for loop, but the idea stays the same.