Java HTML to String toText(String html)

Description

Extract the HTML tags from the given input to make the text content more readable.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
html	The HTML whose content we want to make more readable

Return

The text content extracted from the HTML

Declaration

public static String toText(String html) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*from   ww  w .j  av  a 2 s  .  c om*/
 * Copyright 2015 LinkedIn Corp.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
 * use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
 * the License at
 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
 * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
 * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
 * the License.
 */

public class Main {
    /**
     * Extract the HTML tags from the given input to make the text content more readable.
     *
     * @param html The HTML whose content we want to make more readable
     * @return The text content extracted from the HTML
     */
    public static String toText(String html) {
        String newline = System.getProperty("line.separator");
        return html == null ? ""
                : html.replaceAll("<br/>", newline).replaceAll("<ul>", newline + newline)
                        .replaceAll("</ul>", newline).replaceAll("<li>", "* ").replaceAll("</li>", newline);
    }
}

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7. toText(String text)
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