JSoup解析HTML问题

Question

I am trying to use JSoup to parse some html that looks, roughly, like it does below:

<div class="mod qmy_text withanno">
    <ul class="yfncnhl mytext"></ul>
    <h3>
        <span>Monday, August 12, 1999</span>
    </h3>
    <ul>
        <li><a href="some_link_here">Title of My Article</a><cite>News
                Source<span>(&nbsp;(Sun, Aug 12)</span>
        </cite></li>
    </ul>

My question is, how can I parse that HTML so I can return only what is in <cite> -- Sun, Aug 12.

As of right now I am only able to output the date after h3 by using the expression

Elements links = doc.select("div[class=mod qmy_text withanno] > h3");
    System.out.println(links.text());

Answer 1

Lets format your HTML to include only path to element you want to find. It will look like

<div class="mod qmy_text withanno">
    ...
    <ul>
        <li>
            ...
            <cite>News Source
                 <span>(&nbsp;(Sun, Aug 12)</span>
            </cite>
        </li>
    </ul>

So your select can look like div.mod.qmy_text.withanno > ul > li > cite > span . So with code like

Elements span = doc.select("div.mod.qmy_text.withanno > ul > li > cite > span");
String spanText = span.text();

Our spanText will contain ( (Sun, Aug 12) .

If you want to get only part between last ( and last ) to get Sun, Aug 12 you can use

String date = spanText.substring(spanText.lastIndexOf('(')+1, spanText.lastIndexOf(')'));