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HTML parser for JDK Beta 2

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kondratiev Dima)
Wed Jan 10 06:55:34 1996

From: Kondratiev Dima <DIMA@edge.paragraph.com>
To: Java Interest <java-interest@java.sun.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 96 13:11:00 R



Hi,

I need to parse html files in Java. I use JDK Beta 2 under NT.

As far as I haven't managed to find a version of HTML parser for JDK Beta 2,
I made  some modifications to  the code I found  in
 ftp://java.sun.com/pub/java/avh/html.tar.z (that I think was written for 
alpha3 of
 HotJava) to make it work with Beta 2.

As a result I have a working version of HTML parser for Beta 2,
which doesn't require alpha3 version of HotJava to be installed.

It has the  following limitations :
 - no user properties support ;
 - doesn't provide HotJava functionality, such as
 net.www.http.HttpClient.firewallProxyHost;

I doubt if my work has much sense,  as HotJava for Beta 2 would include HTML
 parser, I guess.

Meanwhile is there HTML parser for JDK Beta 2,
that can be used now ? Can this modified limited parser version  be useful
till new HotJava will arrive ? Should I upload it to some Java public ftp 
site ?

cheers,
Dima.

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