How would be the best way to parse HTML Content ?

[Kiran Shirali]

Hi Everyone,

I need to parse three or four HTML pages to extract data from them.

An example of the pages is:
<div class="site"> <div class="box"> <div class="header">Site</div> <div class="values"> <div class="current"> <div class="value">100</div> <div class="symbol">ABC</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

In this case what I can be doing is:

URL url = new URL("http://urlThatIAmSupposedToRead.html") ;

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));

Then by reading each line I can check the string for the classes 'value' and 'symbol'.

What I want to know is that whether there is a more efficient way to do this? Tomorrow it may happen that the class names can change. So I don't want my application to be tightly coupled to the HTML page.

Anybody has any suggestions?

[Ulf Dittmer]

HtmlUnit