Partial HTML parser

This is a partial HTML parser. This will parse and . But it will not parse and value inside parent tag (eg:

. Will only parse

not the

inside). This is for learning purpose.

Expression : "\\<(\\S*).*?>.*?"

To make this work in java you have to set the dotall mode in pattern.

Pattern pattern =
Pattern.compile("\\<(\\S*).*?>.*?",Pattern.DOTALL);

*dotall mode means . also represents line terminator

Here \\< for < character, (\\S*) for any character which is not whitespace, .* for any character including whitespace (? for parsing Reluctant parsing. Please refer the Reluctant parsing in ) , > for that character, .* for any character including whitespace (? for parsing Reluctant parsing), for that character.