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

jaaf64 <[email protected]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:23:21 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.parsers.htmlparser.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
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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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