I have a Java code that could read the source of a URL and save to a file(source.html) and now from the saved page, I want to extract some value using XPath. Suppose I want to read the price - //div [@itemprop='price'] //text ()
How to do this further, Will I be able to do this directly in the saved HTML page or I should first convert this to an XML file and then use XPath. I have heard about HTML cleaners/Parsers should I use this here ? Please do not point to another website for answers. If so route me to a spot where I can make a direct and simple lesson. Modifying the below code would be highly helpful.
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
public class jSoupContentRead {
@SuppressWarnings("resource")
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
FileWriter FR = new FileWriter("source.html");
PrintWriter op = new PrintWriter(FR);
org.jsoup.nodes.Document doc = Jsoup.connect(
"http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/a-way-home/id982665320?mt=11")
.get();
op.write(doc.toString());
System.out.println(doc.toString());
}
}
Generally (cross languages) XPath is to be applyied to the DOM structure. In php there is a standart procedure:
I think there should be something similar in JAVA.