pls tell me how to parse this web page

[SpencerWHJ]

the URL is http://www.time.com/time/election2004
I would like to get the story title, abstract and the full story text throuh the story's title URL
for example:
story title: Who Stretches the Truth?
story abstract: TIME lays out the facts behind what both candidates said during the first match-up
Story titleURL: http://www.time.com/time/election2004/article/0,18471,709071,00.html

As I am get touched with htmlParser, could please tell me how to achieve that? Thanks a lot

[Derrick Oswald]

The information you want is in the meta tags in the HTML header:

<meta name="HEAD" content="Who Stretches the Truth?">
<meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="TIME lays out the facts behind what both candidates said during the first match-up">

A filter extracting these two would be:

NodeFilter filter =
   new OrFilter ( // get both nodes matching either of the following:
       new AndFilter ( // a node must be or have both the following:
          new TagNameFilter ("META"), // the name "META"
          new HasAttributeFilter ("name", "HEAD")), // an attribute "name" with the value "HEAD"
       new AndFilter (
          new TagNameFilter ("META"),
          new HasAttributeFilter ("name", "DESCRIPTION")));

The NodeList you get from Parser.extractAllNodesThatMatch (filter) would contain these two nodes.
You could then get the text from them with:
   String title = ((Tag)list.elementAt (0)).getAttribute ("content");
   String abstract = ((Tag)list.elementAt (1)).getAttribute ("content");

Derrick

[SpencerWHJ]

thank you very much! It works!