Question

I’m looking to export the Java SE 7 Documentation from HTML into parse-able XML.

Whether this is done with a scripting language like Perl, or done directly from Java (maybe with Eclipse), I’m open to suggestions. Perhaps someone has already done it?

I need most of the data available in the API’s Javadoc, so it would take an eternity to do it manually. I’m not looking for code, I could figure that out myself, I’m just looking for some ideas on doing this, as I’m sure there’s an “easy” way, and I don’t want to waste too much time doing it one way and later finding out I can do it quicker in another.

Not that it should matter, but I will be reading the XML with C#.

I know it’s a bit of a strange question, but I don’t know where else to ask.

Answer 1

Here you go: Javadoc as XML

If you have the JDK installed, complete source code, to extract the Javadoc is found in <your JDK folder>\src.zip