tag.getEndTag() returns null where expected not to be

denentzat <[email protected]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:27:42 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.parsers.htmlparser.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Hi everybody,

I am new to html parsing and I have trouble understanding the meaning of 
"composite tag": At first I thought that it was a tag such as 
<tagname></tagname> opposing this notion to the non-composite version 
<tagname/>.
I wrote a short html file to check it. Here it is:

    /<html>
    <head></head>
    <body>
    <br/>
    text just afer html
    <br/>
    <H1>Title 1 1</H1>
    Text  1
    <h2>Title 2</h2>
    <p>Phrase 1 p1. Phrase 2 p1</p>
    <br/>
    <p>Phrase 1 p2. <strong>Phrase in <em>bold</em> </strong> 2 p2</p>
    </body>
    </html>/


Then I started my "visitTag(Tag tag) method that way:

    /public void visitTag(Tag tag) {


             System.out.println("Visit tag : " + tag.getTagName());
             if (tag.getEndTag() != null) {
                 System.out.println("getEndTag
    returns:"+tag.getEndTag().getTagName());
             } else {
                 System.out.println("getEndTag returns null");
             }/

I get this:

    /Visit tag : HTML
    getEndTag returns:HTML
    Visit tag : HEAD
    getEndTag returns:HEAD
    visit endTag :/head
    Visit tag : BODY
    getEndTag returns:BODY
    Visit tag : BR
    getEndTag returns null
    Visit tag : BR
    getEndTag returns null
    Visit tag : H1
    getEndTag returns null
    visit endTag :/H1
    Visit tag : H2
    getEndTag returns null
    visit endTag :/h2
    Visit tag : P
    getEndTag returns null
    visit endTag :/p
    Visit tag : BR
    getEndTag returns null
    Visit tag : P
    getEndTag returns null
    Visit tag : STRONG
    getEndTag returns null
    Visit tag : EM
    getEndTag returns null
    visit endTag :/em
    visit endTag :/strong
    visit endTag :/p
    visit endTag :/body
    11202: Info: Load project source files: 329ms
    visit endTag :/html/

Apparently, getEndTag() returns null for h1,h2,strong, em and p tags.
It seems I don't understand the word «composite"!
Could somebody help me?




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