how build a an html to text converter in java

I can certainly give you a recommendation as to how *i* would do this.

The main problem is that the readily available Java parsers for html will usually fall over unless the quality of html markup is high. This is usually not the case.

I would therefore get hold of 'Tidy for Java' (could be called JTidy). This will turn the html into well-formed xml. It is then simple to SAX parse that xml leaving you with the plain text.

Do you need some formated text on input or you need only to extract the text in any form?

output text formatted or unformatted both allright for me

That won't circumvent the problem, antons; that is of ill- formed markup. Html is frequently written with unpaired tags, one of the things that makes parsers fall over.

>>System.out.println("------------------------" + java.nio.charset.Charset.availableCharsets());

is Java 1.4 specific, but doesn't seem to be essential.

>>BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(hs, "windows-1250"));

is encoding-specific. What is this encoding - is it the same as Cp1252?

System.out.println("------------------------" + java.nio.charset.Charset.availableCharsets());
 is mistake forget this.....

the process omit all tags and does not care if they are paired or not.

Just try it .... you will see.

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