Java HTML Jsoup Element getElementByXPath(String xpath, Document doc)

Description

get Element By X Path

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static Element getElementByXPath(String xpath, Document doc) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Open Source License 

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

public class Main {
    public static Element getElementByXPath(String xpath, Document doc) {

        String[] tags = xpath.substring(11, xpath.length()).split("/"); // ommiting /html/body/
        Element clt = doc.body();

        int index;
        int divc = 0;
        boolean done = false;
        for (String tag : tags) {
            if (tag.startsWith("div"))
                divc++;//  ww w  .java  2 s. c o m

            index = 0;
            int bindex = tag.indexOf('[');
            int eindex = tag.indexOf(']');
            if (bindex != -1) {
                index = Integer.parseInt(tag.substring(bindex + 1, eindex)) - 1;
                tag = tag.substring(0, bindex);
            }

            try {
                clt = clt.select(">" + tag).get(index);
            } catch (IndexOutOfBoundsException ex) {
                System.out.println(xpath + " is not valid.");
                clt = null;
                break;
            }

            if (tag.equals("table"))
                clt = clt.select(">tbody").get(0);

        }

        return clt;
    }
}

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