I need to parse the below text and create separate objects for each text. I tried a few ways to do it, but it does not provide the results in the format I need.
The text is:
String text = "This is start of a text <a href=\"https://google.com/sample\">followed by a link sample</a>and ending with some text."
Using the below code:
Document document = Jsoup.parse(text);
Elements elements = document.select("*");
for(Element e : elements){
System.out.println( e.tagName() + ": " + e.text());}
The actual results are
root: This is start of a text followed by a link sampleand ending with some text.
html: This is start of a text followed by a link sampleand ending with some text.
head:
body: This is start of a text followed by a link sampleand ending with some text.
p: This is start of a text followed by a link sampleand ending with some text.
a: followed by a link sample
I need to get the below results so that I can create a custom object for each of the text
body: This is start of a text
a:followed by a link sample
body:and ending with some text.
To avoid returning text of all children use e.ownText(), but that's not enough in this case as you want to have separate This is start of a text and and ending with some text., but ownText() returns it joined: This is start of a text and ending with some text..
To get the list of separated texts use e.textNodes() and the output for body will be:
body: [
This is start of a text , and ending with some text.]
a: [followed by a link sample]
and an additional advantage is you're keeping original .
Also if you don't like redundant html: [] and head: [] added to your document you should use XML parser:
Document document = Jsoup.parse(text, "", Parser.xmlParser());
To keep both text separated and <a> text in order try iterating recursively using: document.childNodes() and then childNodes() for every node. You can identify text nodes by checking if (node instanceof TextNode).