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

Derrick Oswald <[email protected]> Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:42:00 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.parsers.htmlparser.user
Message-ID	<CAFVdc0DRVdNxTq5mp-65LDeeNjzWVT5CJOjpmueLX7UiCUhemw@mail.gmail.com>
Composite simply means the tag acts as a nest for other tags, <html> ...
</html>.
 On Jun 15, 2012 7:24 PM, "jaaf64" <[email protected]> wrote:

> (resent from the right address)
> 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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