XHTML and JTidy

Question

Hi,
I have converted a html file to xhtml using JTidy. Now I'm trying to extract data from it. I have to following line to parse:
<h2 class=r>
<a class=l href="http://www.java.com/" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','res','1','')">
<b>java</b>.com: Hot Games, Cool Apps</a></h2>
I want to extract the text in between the h2 tags , namely "java.com: Hot Games, cool Apps". At the moment it does'nt extract anything , i think because of the <b> tags. This is the code I'm using:
DocumentBuilderFactory domFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
domFactory.setNamespaceAware(true); // never forget this! DocumentBuilder builder = domFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document document = tidy.parseDOM(in, System.out);
NodeList sections = document.getElementsByTagName ( "h2" ) ;
int numSections = sections.getLength ( ) ;
System.out.println(numSections);
for ( int i = 0; i < numSections; i++ )
Element section = ( Element ) sections.item ( i ) ;
Node title = section.getFirstChild ( ) ;
while ( title != null && title.getNodeType ( ) != Node.ELEMENT_NODE )
title = title.getNextSibling ( ) ;
if ( title!=null )
System.out.println ( title.getFirstChild ( ) .getNodeValue ( ) ) ;
Is there a way to ignore tags when when traversing a DOM document?
Thanks

Answer 1

Node.getTextContent()... in Java 5, otherwise traverse the DOM tree below the "h2" element and append each text node as you come to it.