Jsoup - extracting text

Question

I need to extract text from a node like this:

    Some text with tags might go here.
    
Also there are paragraphs<         


        
      

Answer 1

Assuming you want text only (no tags) my solution is below.
Output is:
Some text with tags might go here. Also there are paragraphs. More text can go without paragraphs

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    String str = 
                "
"  
            +   "    Some text with tags might go here."
            +   "    
Also there are paragraphs.
"
            +   "    More text can go without paragraphs
" 
            +   "
";

    Document doc = Jsoup.parse(str);
    Element div = doc.select("div").first();
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
    stripTags(builder, div.childNodes());
    System.out.println("Text without tags: " + builder.toString());
}

/**
 * Strip tags from a List of type Node
 * @param builder StringBuilder : input and output
 * @param nodesList List of type Node
 */
public static void stripTags (StringBuilder builder, List nodesList) {

    for (Node node : nodesList) {
        String nodeName  = node.nodeName();

        if (nodeName.equalsIgnoreCase("#text")) {
            builder.append(node.toString());
        } else {
            // recurse
            stripTags(builder, node.childNodes());
        }
    }
}