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Hi folks,

Can someone point a hobby java beginner get some tutorial / sample /
code snippet that shows how to grab an url over http (html file), and
parse it to extract some information?. I'm looking for the most elegant
/ shorter path, btw: I'm trying to do this from a client-side java
app...

Say, I want to grab (http get) the url
http://www.host.com/data/something.c...omething=stuff

and get as a result all the information between <sometag> and
</someothertag> (or between '---something--' and '--somethingelse')
into a string?

what would be the best way to parse it? Are there any built-in HTML
parsers in J2SE 5.0 (say for instance I want to remove all html tags).

I haven't coded with java code in a long, long time and when I did, I
only dealt with local files, not network i/o (btw: I run Java apps
daily, like the beatiful swing-based Photomesa digital photo browser, I
just don't code 'em .

Thanks in advance, and sorry if this was the wrong newsgroup for such a
question...