Class jala.HtmlDocument

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class jala.HtmlDocument

This class provides easy access to the elements of an arbitrary HTML document. By using TagSoup, Dom4J and Jaxen even invalid HTML can be parsed, turned into an object tree and easily be processed with XPath expressions.
Defined in HtmlDocument.js

Constructor Detail

jala.HtmlDocument

jala.HtmlDocument(<String> source)

Construct a new HTML document.

Parameters:
source - The HTML source code.

Returns:
A new HTML document.

getAll

Array getAll(<String> elementName)

Retrieves all elements by name from the document. The returned object structure is compatible for usage in jala.XmlWriter.

Parameters:
elementName - The name of the desired element

Returns:
The list of available elements in the document

getLinks

Array getLinks()

Get all link elements of the HTML document.

Returns:
A list of link elements.

scrape

org.dom4j.tree.DefaultElement scrape(<String> xpathExpr)

Get all document nodes from an XPath expression.

Parameters:
xpathExpr - An XPath expression.

Returns:
A list of HTML elements.

toString

String toString()

Get a string representation of the HTML document.

Returns:
A string representation of the HTML document.