reading from a file instead of a page

[javacodeforger]

Hi,

how do I parse a file on my pc

      File file = new File(filepath);

      Parser parser = new Parser (file.getAbsolutePath());
      NodeIterator ni = parser.elements();
      Node htmlNode = ni.nextNode();

I tried this
but it threw and error

org.htmlparser.util.ParserException: D:\program\java\src\resources\wb1931_a.html (The system cannot find the file specified);

the file is in that directory

pls help

[Derrick Oswald]

There is code in Parser.java to do this.

                final String prefix = "file://localhost";
                File file = new File (string);
                String resource = file.getCanonicalPath ();
                StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer (prefix.length () + resource.length ());
                buffer.append (prefix);
                if (!resource.startsWith ("/"))
                    buffer.append ("/");
                buffer.append (resource);
                url = new URL (fixSpaces (buffer.toString ()));

then you can use url.toExternalForm().

[jeffChan]

I have tried this code, but I cannot get any content after parser.extractAllNodesThatMatch (filter);
although I sucessfully complied the code

[Derrick Oswald]

Try a less restrictive filter, or if the problem is trying to re-get nodes after calling extractAllNodesThatMatch() then use parser.reset().