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Reputation: 789

Choose all elements except on with Selector of Jsoup

I want to select all from the html except <blockquote> element. How to do this in the simpliest way using Jsoup? I know there is a :not syntax, but how to use it in this example?

import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Element;

public class AppMain {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { 
        String html = "<body> <blockquote> ...remove.this... </blockquote> ...get.this... </body>";
        Document d = Jsoup.parse(html);
        Element element = d.select(:not("blockquote").first(); // doesn't work
        System.out.println(element.text()); // here I want get only: `...get.this...'
}
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1341

Answers (1)

juzraai
juzraai

Reputation: 5943

You have a syntactical error in this line (your compiler should have complained about it):

d.select(:not("blockquote"); // doesn't work

This would be the valid syntax:

d.select(":not(blockquote)");

Because select is a Java method which takes a String argument. So you must give it a String, e.g.:

d.select("something");

And this "something" has to be a selector. In your case: ":not(blockquote)".

Another approach would be to select all <blockquote> elements and remove them:

d.select("blockquote").remove()
// after that, work with d

Upvotes: 1

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