package com.sismics.util; import org.jsoup.helper.StringUtil; import org.jsoup.nodes.Element; import org.jsoup.nodes.Node; import org.jsoup.nodes.TextNode; import org.jsoup.select.NodeTraversor; import org.jsoup.select.NodeVisitor; /** * HTML to plain-text. This example program demonstrates the use of jsoup to convert HTML input to lightly-formatted * plain-text. That is divergent from the general goal of jsoup's .text() methods, which is to get clean data from a * scrape. * * @author Jonathan Hedley, jonathan@hedley.net */ public class HtmlToPlainText { /** * Format an Element to plain-text * @param element the root element to format * @return formatted text */ public String getPlainText(Element element) { FormattingVisitor formatter = new FormattingVisitor(); NodeTraversor.traverse(formatter, element); // walk the DOM, and call .head() and .tail() for each node return formatter.toString(); } // the formatting rules, implemented in a breadth-first DOM traverse private class FormattingVisitor implements NodeVisitor { private static final int maxWidth = 80; private int width = 0; private StringBuilder accum = new StringBuilder(); // holds the accumulated text // hit when the node is first seen public void head(Node node, int depth) { String name = node.nodeName(); if (node instanceof TextNode) append(((TextNode) node).text()); // TextNodes carry all user-readable text in the DOM. else if (name.equals("li")) append("\n * "); else if (name.equals("dt")) append(" "); else if (StringUtil.in(name, "p", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "tr")) append("\n"); } // hit when all of the node's children (if any) have been visited public void tail(Node node, int depth) { String name = node.nodeName(); if (StringUtil.in(name, "br", "dd", "dt", "p", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5")) append("\n"); else if (name.equals("a")) append(String.format(" <%s>", node.absUrl("href"))); } // appends text to the string builder with a simple word wrap method private void append(String text) { if (text.startsWith("\n")) width = 0; // reset counter if starts with a newline. only from formats above, not in natural text if (text.equals(" ") && (accum.length() == 0 || StringUtil.in(accum.substring(accum.length() - 1), " ", "\n"))) return; // don't accumulate long runs of empty spaces if (text.length() + width > maxWidth) { // won't fit, needs to wrap String words[] = text.split("\\s+"); for (int i = 0; i < words.length; i++) { String word = words[i]; boolean last = i == words.length - 1; if (!last) // insert a space if not the last word word = word + " "; if (word.length() + width > maxWidth) { // wrap and reset counter accum.append("\n").append(word); width = word.length(); } else { accum.append(word); width += word.length(); } } } else { // fits as is, without need to wrap text accum.append(text); width += text.length(); } } @Override public String toString() { return accum.toString(); } } }