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Murugesh
Murugesh

Reputation: 1001

Searching a particular text in DOM

I have a HTML/JSP's DOM with me, I want to search a particular text inside a DOM and need to build the XPath for the element which contains the text. Using Jsoup API.Building a xpath is working fine

I am able to search the text if it is a value of the element or the value of the attributes of the element. Suppose if a text is there in the DOM without any tags , and if text is contained in span nodes, how do I can search?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1270

Answers (1)

Alex DiCarlo
Alex DiCarlo

Reputation: 4891

Solutions

There are a few different solutions.

jsoup Selector

The jsoup API has a Selector class that implements pseudo-selectors. Specifically:

  • :contains(text)
  • :matches(regex)

These will return a list of elements that contain the search text. You'll have to try it to see if they return the parent container or the exact child, or some combination.

jsoup Element

The Element class has a few methods that may prove useful:

These methods allow retrieval of elements or parent elements that contain a given text or regex pattern.

String Conversion

  1. Convert the HTML to a string.
  2. Search for text elements as normal (e.g., regular expression).

This has the disadvantage that if the string you want to match is the same as the value for an attribute or the value for a node name, it will return false positives.

Resources

See the String API; useful functions might be indexOf and split.

See the Pattern API for constructing regular expressions.

Upvotes: 2

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