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If I have an element that looks like this:
<foo>
<bar> bar text 1 </bar>
<baz>
<bar> bar text 2 </bar>
</baz>
</foo>
And I already have the <foo> element selected, and I want to select the <bar> element that is a direct child of <foo> but not the one that is a child of <baz>, how do I specify that?
Element foo = <that thing above>
foo.select("bar").text();
yields "bar text 1 bar text 2"
what I want is something like
foo.select("this > bar").text();
The question is: how do I specify "this element" in the selector?
Note that the desired bar might not be first -- I need a solution that would also work for:
<foo>
<baz>
<bar> bar text 2 </bar>
</baz>
<bar> bar text 1 </bar>
</foo>
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A direct child is a child element that comes immediately below the parent in terms of hierarchy. That is to say, not a grandchild or great-grandchild.
A HTML element consists of a tag name, attributes, and child nodes (including text nodes and other elements). From an Element, you can extract data, traverse the node graph, and manipulate the HTML.
I believe you want:
foo.select("> bar").text();
see jsoup Selectors page, Combinators section:
E > F an F direct child of E
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Use the :root structural pseudo-element to specify "this element". From the Element.select Javadoc, we see select uses "this element as the starting context" and can match "this element, or any of its children"; that is, :root refers to the this element, not the actual document root. The following code demonstrates by placing the second example in some outer tags:
//nest your second sample in some fake outer html body
Element html = (Element)Parser.parseFragment("<html><body><foo>\n" +
" <baz>\n" +
" <bar> bar text 2 </bar>\n" +
" </baz>\n" +
" <bar> bar text 1 </bar>\n" +
"</foo></body></html>", null, "http://example.com").get(0);
Element foo = html.select("foo").first();
System.out.println(foo.select(":root > bar"));
This code prints
<bar>
bar text 1
</bar>
correctly skipping the nested bar element.
According to the Jsoup changelog, structural pseudo-element support was added in 1.7.2.
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