Library to query HTML with XPath in Java?

Question

Can anyone recommend me a java library to allow me XPath Queries over URLs? I\'ve tried JAXP without success.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Use Xsoup. According to the docs, it's faster than HtmlCleaner. Example

 @Test
    public void testSelect() {

        String html = "
github.com
" +
                "
a
b
";

        Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);

        String result = Xsoup.compile("//a/@href").evaluate(document).get();
        Assert.assertEquals("https://github.com", result);

        List list = Xsoup.compile("//tr/td/text()").evaluate(document).list();
        Assert.assertEquals("a", list.get(0));
        Assert.assertEquals("b", list.get(1));
    }

Link to Xsoup - https://github.com/code4craft/xsoup