How to parse this page? help me.

[Anonymous]

I try to parse this page (http://www.hboasia.com/schedule/index.jsp?curCountry=84) But I can't get any expected result. This is a schedule of my favorite TV's program. I just want to get the title, time and duration of all the movies on the present day. Any body can help me?

[Derrick Oswald]

This is pretty trivial entry level programmer stuff. The formatting of the output takes more code than the actual parse code.

I include the code inline in this forum, but there's a chance it will get mangled by the sourceforge system:

import org.htmlparser.filters.HasAttributeFilter;
import org.htmlparser.util.NodeList;
import org.htmlparser.NodeFilter;
import org.htmlparser.Parser;

public class HBOReader
{
    public static void format (String string)
    {
        int length;

        string = string.replaceAll ("\t", "");
        string = string.replaceAll ("\n", " ");
        do
        {
            length = string.length ();
            string = string.replaceAll ("  ", " ");
        }
        while (length != string.length ());

        if (string.startsWith (" "))
        {
            if (string.endsWith (" more >> "))
                string = string.substring (0, string.length () - 9);
            System.out.println (string.substring (1));
        }
    }

    public static void main (String[] args) throws Exception
    {
        Parser parser;
        NodeFilter filter;
        NodeList list;

        filter = new HasAttributeFilter ("class", "contentdesc");
        parser = new Parser ("http://www.hboasia.com/schedule/index.jsp?curCountry=84");
        list = parser.extractAllNodesThatMatch (filter);
        for (int i = 0; i < list.size (); i++)
            format (list.elementAt (i).toPlainTextString ());
    }
}

Produces:
52 Pick-Up (Starts 5:00 AM) Duration - 1:39 hr
The Powerpuff Girls Movie (Starts 6:45 AM) Duration - 1:30 hr
Dance Macabre (Starts 8:00 AM) Duration - 1:32 hr
Family Under Siege (Starts 9:45 AM) Duration - 1:30 hr
Beethoven's 4th (Starts 11:30 AM) Duration - 1:29 hr
Save The Last Dance (Starts 1:00 PM) Duration - 1:48 hr
Desert Hawk (Starts 3:00 PM) Duration - 1:26 hr
Streets Of Fire (Starts 4:30 PM) Duration - 1:29 hr
The Animal (Starts 6:00 PM) Duration - 1:19 hr
Tremors 3: Back To Perfection (Starts 7:20 PM) Duration - 1:39 hr
Six Feet Under Back to Back Special (Ep 22-23) (Starts 9:00 PM) Duration - 1:46 hr
The Amazing Panda Adventure (Starts 10:55 PM) Duration - 1:20 hr
Beethoven's 4th (Starts 12:20 AM) Duration - 1:29 hr
Lone Star State Of Mind (Starts 2:00 AM) Duration - 1:24 hr
The Animal (Starts 3:30 AM) Duration - 1:19 hr