Creating HTML Parser

As a my final year project i created Web Browser, but with the help of third party parser, so as a part of further development i want to write a HTML parser in java.. But i don't know how to proceed.. Please help me with this.

Have you listed all the features your parser should have?

I'd start by checking some existing open source Java HTML parsers. If you can't use them directly in your code, you can at least check out how they've done it.

Um..wouldn't that defeat the purpose of writing your own parser?

I'm not saying the entire code should be copy-pasted, but it could be used for hints on how to do it. For something like this, I wouldn't completely reinvent the wheel, not even as part of a school project.

I want to try developing my own parser, HTML parser with minimum functionality and then moving towards advanced functionality.. but i'm not getting how i can proceed, or what first move i should take

First of all you need to know how parsers work in general. Next you need to decide whether you want to do strict parsing (i.e. reject anything which doesn't conform to the HTML spec) or lenient parsing (i.e. accept anything which vaguely resembles HTML). Then you need a grammar for whatever you decided there. Finally you need to write a parser based on that grammar.

Thanks Paul..

Please suggest me some material regarding how parser work in general, because i searched for it and it is hard to get it..

Am I correct in guessing that you know approximately nothing about parsers? Then start with the Wikipedia article: Parser.

I'm an software engineer, and i know about parser ( concept i learned from compiler construction course), as a theoretical part, i know how to create grammar too, but i never tried for designing parser before so..

Okay, then it shouldn't be a problem. Just be aware that it's going to be a significant amount of work, so asking vague and general questions on forums is unlikely to advance that process.