How to parse overlapping string?....@@.

[mike]

regards:
I have the following string:
<a>XXXX<b></a>YYYYY</b>

How to write java codes to parse "<a>XXXX<b></a>YYYYY</b>"
and then output"<a>XXXX</a><b>YYYYY</b>"
any idea is welcome

Thank you
May goodness be with you all

 

[koos]

regards:
I have the following string:
<a>XXXX<b></a>YYYYY</b>

How to write java codes to parse "<a>XXXX<b></a>YYYYY</b>"
and then output"<a>XXXX</a><b>YYYYY</b>"
any idea is welcome

just scan the string for start-tags and put them
on a stack. When an end-tag occurs, whatever it is,
pop the last start-tag from the stack and create
a new end-tag...


koos.

 

[Antti S. Brax]

just scan the string for start-tags and put them
on a stack. When an end-tag occurs, whatever it is,
pop the last start-tag from the stack and create
a new end-tag...

Wouldn't you end up with "<a>XXXX<b></b></a>YYYYY</b></b>"
then?

 

[Ann]

regards:
I have the following string:
<a>XXXX<b></a>YYYYY</b>

How to write java codes to parse "<a>XXXX<b></a>YYYYY</b>"
and then output"<a>XXXX</a><b>YYYYY</b>"
any idea is welcome

Would tidy work?

 

[Ann]

I just tried tidy:
line 1 column 9 - Warning: missing </b> before </a>
line 1 column 9 - Warning: trimming empty <b>
line 1 column 20 - Warning: discarding unexpected </b>
3 warnings, 0 errors were found!

The result was
<a>XXXX</a>YYYYY

 

[Aleksander =?iso-8859-2?Q?Str=B1czek?=]

regards:
I have the following string:
<a>XXXX<b></a>YYYYY</b>

How to write java codes to parse "<a>XXXX<b></a>YYYYY</b>"
and then output"<a>XXXX</a><b>YYYYY</b>"
any idea is welcome

Did you tried
http://jerichohtml.sourceforge.net/
http://www.apache.org/~andyc/neko/doc/html/index.html
?

 

[digidigo]

How about

input = input.replaceAll("<b></a>","</a><b>")
Also this would be simple to do with regular expressions.

Dave

 

[mikeotp]

regards:

How to do it with regular expressions?...@@

Any suggestion is welcome.
thank you
May goodness be with you all