Discard html tags within custom tags while getting text in XHTML using SAX Parser in Groovy

Question

So I am trying to get the text between the tags. So far I have been successful. But sometimes when there are special characters or html tags inside my custom tags I am unable to

Answer 1

Since you have been asking this question now for different libraries, here is a solution with XMLParser. The author of this XML had maybe not the best understanding how XML works. If I where you I'd rather put some filtering in place, to make this sane again (e.g. X to x).

def xml = '''\

    
        Australia
        1.02 Accounting Terms.
    
    
        Isle of Man
        Smallest Street-Legal Car at 99cm wide and 59 kg in weight
    
    
        France
        Most Valuable Car at $15 million
    

'''

def underp = { l ->
    l.inject([texts: [:]]) { r, it ->
        if (it.respondsTo('name') && it.name().endsWith('Begin')) {
            r.texts[(r.last=it.name().replaceFirst(/Begin$/,''))] = ''
        } else if (it.respondsTo('name') && it.name().endsWith('End')) {
            r.last = null
        } else if (r.last) {
            r.texts[r.last] += (it instanceof String) ? it : it.text()
        }
        r
    }.texts
}

def root = new XmlParser().parseText(xml)
root.car.each{
    println underp(it.children()).inspect()
}

prints

['ae_definedTermTitle':'Australia', 'ae_clauseTitle':'1.02 Accounting Terms.']
['ae_definedTermTitle':'Isle of Man', 'ae_clauseTitle':'Smallest Street-Legal Car at 99cm wide and 59 kg in weight']
['ae_definedTermTitle':'France', 'ae_clauseTitle':'Most Valuable Car at $15 million']