Java HTML Stripping-CodePudding

//Method for Strip HTML
public static String stripHtml(String inStr) {
  boolean inTag = false;
  char c;
  StringBuffer outStr = new StringBuffer();
  int len = inStr.length();
  for (int i = 0; i < len; i  ) {
    c = inStr.charAt(i);
    if (c == '<') {
      inTag = true;
    }
    if (!inTag) {
      outStr.append(c);
    }
    if (c == '>') {
      inTag = false;
    }
  }
  //Print to show that the this method is removing the necessary characters
  System.out.println(outStr);
  return outStr.toString();
}

So I need all outputs containing <> to be cleansed and everything in between it, and it should still print out the remaining characters. for instance

input:app<html>le
expected:apple

however it should also remove if it finds just "<" or ">" but my method isn't doing so.

input:app<le
output:app<le
expected:apple

please let me know what to fix.

CodePudding user response：

Try parsing HTML using an HTML parser like JSoup or TagSoup. Once you have the DOM, on the root element just call getTextContent().

From the API documentation (never versions of Java act the same): This attribute returns the text content of this node and its descendants. [...] no serialization is performed, the returned string does not contain any markup.

See also

CodePudding user response：

It works fine with Jsoup, as someone said.

String input = "app<html>le";
Document doc = Jsoup.parse(input);
System.out.println(doc.wholeText());  // or doc.text()

output:

apple

But the example you gave is not a proper XML document and cannot be processed using XML parsers.

You can also modify your program slightly.

public static String stripHtml(String inStr) {
    boolean inTag = false;
    StringBuffer outStr = new StringBuffer();
    int len = inStr.length();
    for (int i = 0; i < len; i  ) {
        char c = inStr.charAt(i);
        if (c == '<') {
            inTag = true;
        } else if (c == '>') {
            inTag = false;
        } else if (!inTag) {
            outStr.append(c);
        }
    }
    return outStr.toString();
}

and

String input = "app<html>le";
System.out.println(stripHtml(input));

output:

apple

CodePudding user response：

Your requirement is to remove a paired <...> and not handle sole <s.

This means that your code may only drop the in-tag characters when encountering >-

Your code could also use ìnt i2 = inStr.indexOf('>', i 1); to find a closing > at <.

However simpler is to use a regular expression replace:

public static String stripHtml(String s) {
    return s.replaceAll("<[^>]*>", "");
}

This searches all:

<
a not->, 0 or more times (*)
>