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Lagarto

Lagarto is an all purpose fast and versatile event-based HTML parser. It can be used to modify or analyze some markup content, allowing to easily assemble custom complex transformations and code analysis tools.

Using Lagarto is very simple. Target HTML code is parsed and each HTML element is visited by user callback methods. For example, the following HTML snippet:

    <html>
      <body>Hello</body>
    </html>

would fire the following set of events:

    start();  // parsing start
    tag();    // for opening 'html' tag
    text();   // for new line and spaces up to the next tag
    tag();    // for opening 'body' tag
    text();   // for text 'Hello'
    tag();    // for closing 'body' tag
    text();   // for new line and spaces up to the next tag
    tag();    // for closing 'html' tag
    end();    // parsing end

This makes Lagarto very, very fast; in fact it is one of the fastest parsers out there.

DOM Builder

Lagarto DOMBuilder is an extension made on Lagarto parser that builds a DOM tree from the input HTML. This way you can manipulate tree more convenient, with minor performance sacrifice.

Jerry

If you feel like a JavaScript-ninja, go ahead and use Jerry! It is jQuery in Java. Write your code for reading or manipulating HTML similar as you would with jQuery. Now, that is convenient :)

Lagarto Family

Lagarto is just a HTML/XML content parser, but many other cool things in Jodd are built on top of it:

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