Parsing Java String with SGML

Question

I have a Java String with SGML, something like this...

<misspell></misspell><plain>I</plain> <plain>know</plain> <plain>you</plain> <suggestion>ducky</suggestion> <plain>suck</plain> <plain>and</plain> <plain>I</plain> <plain>rocky</plain> <plain>rock</plain>

How do I parse it to get for instance say the text inside <suggestion> </suggestion> so as to get "ducky" out??

Will javax.swing.text.html.parser.Parse can be of any help? or I can only parse HTML docs with it?

Answer 1

The string you show is not HTML, but it could be parsed by an XML parser .

The SAX API is part of the JDK and AFAIK most XML parsers implement it.

Answer 2

try an html parser, they are (by necessity) quite forgiving of malformed markup and html is by nature based on SGML.

eg http://htmlparser.sourceforge.net/