Parsing HTML

[jaadu25]

I am trying to parse the HTML, and for a HTML code like this

<span class="authorName">Paul Abbott </span>
I want to retrieve the value "Paul Abbott"

Right now, I am using a parser, to generate the HTML tree and by using the this code..
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Tidy tidy = new Tidy();
tidy.setXHTML(xhtml);
d = tidy.parseDOM(in,out);


NodeList spanNode = d.getElementsByTagName("span");
int length = spanNode.getLength();
for(int i = 0;i<length;i++)
{
org.w3c.dom.Node span = spanNode.item(i);
String tempAltText = span.getAttributes().getNamedItem("class").getNode Value();
if(tempAltText.equals("authorName")){

System.out.println("the item is " + tempAltText);
}
else{

}
}

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The tempAltText displays "authorName" but not "Paul Abott"
please give me some suggestions...how can i do that...

[Norm]

Don't know about parsing HTML, but your if test give you what you want.
Its like asking if x == 1 and then being suprised that x is equal to 1. Perhaps you need to get some other item.

[jaadu25]

The thing is I want to dispaly "paul Abott" not "authorName".....how can i do that...
Is it clear now...or if you need more explanation...let me know..

[fishtoprecords]

On forums, its generally a good idea to post the solution, so others with the same problem can benefit from the effort you put into finding a solution.

[jaadu25]

I am still looking for the solution..I haven't solved it yet...

[Jeremy]

Are you looking at the API? There are a handful of "get" methods and I'm pretty sure at least one of them works!

Node (Java Platform SE 6)

[Engineeringserver.com]

I've seen a similiar question on the sun java forums and i've answered it but because he went postal i've removed my code and let him sort it out on his own..