Java HTML Jsoup Element findAllNodesBefore(Element firstChapter)

Description

find All Nodes Before

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static List<Node> findAllNodesBefore(Element firstChapter) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Open Source License 

import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Element;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Node;

public class Main {
    public static List<Node> findAllNodesBefore(Element firstChapter) {
        List<Node> foundNodes = new ArrayList<>();
        List<Node> parentNodes = getAllNodes(firstChapter.parent());
        for (Node node : parentNodes) {
            if (node instanceof Element) {
                Element element = (Element) node;
                if ("h1".equals(element.tagName())) {
                    return foundNodes;
                }//from  www  . jav  a2s  .  c o  m
            }
            foundNodes.add(node);
        }
        return foundNodes;
    }

    public static List<Node> getAllNodes(Element element) {
        try {
            Field childNodesField = Node.class.getDeclaredField("childNodes");
            childNodesField.setAccessible(true);
            @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
            List<Node> childNodes = (List<Node>) childNodesField.get(element);
            return childNodes;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Could not get the nodes of element: " + element, e);
        }
    }
}

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