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import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Text;

public class urlreader1 {
private String target = "D:/example2.xml";
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
URL yahoo = new URL("http://www.computing.northampton.ac.uk/~scott/csy3025/sample1.html");
DocumentBuilderFactory dbfac = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder docBuilder = dbfac.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = docBuilder.newDocument();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(
yahoo.openStream()));

String inputLine;
String first="a";
String second="a";
String third="a";
String forth="a";
String fifth="a";
String sixth="a";



while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)//reads in the html page line by line
{
String inputLine2=inputLine.replaceAll(""", "");//removes speechmarks from text
String[] parts = inputLine2.split("<span itemprop=");//splits into sections based on it is after <span class="
for (int loop=0;loop<parts.length;loop++)
{
System.out.println(parts[loop]);
if (parts[loop].contains("name>"))
{
first=parts[loop].substring(13, (parts[loop].length())-16);
}
if (parts[loop].contains("jobTitle>"))
{
second=parts[loop].substring(9, (parts[loop].length())-7);
}
if (parts[loop].contains("worksFor>"))
{
third=parts[loop].substring(9, (parts[loop].length())-7);
}
if (parts[loop].contains("address>"))
{
forth=parts[loop].substring(8, (parts[loop].length())-7);
}
if (parts[loop].contains("postalCode>"))
{
fifth=parts[loop].substring(11, (parts[loop].length())-7);
}
if (parts[loop].contains("email>"))
{
sixth=parts[loop].substring(6, (parts[loop].length())-7);
}
}
}

in.close();
System.out.println("Extracted first name "+first);
System.out.println("Extracted surname "+second);
try {
/////////////////////////////
//Creating an empty XML Document




//Creating the XML tree

Element root = doc.createElement("address_1");
doc.appendChild(root);



//create child element, add an attribute, and add to root
Element first1 = doc.createElement("Name");
root.appendChild(first1);

//add a text element to the child
Text text = doc.createTextNode(first);
first1.appendChild(text);

Element first2 = doc.createElement("Job_title");
root.appendChild(first2);

//add a text element to the child
Text text2 = doc.createTextNode(second);
first2.appendChild(text2);
//Output the XML

Element first3 = doc.createElement("Employer");
root.appendChild(first3);

//add a text element to the child
Text text3 = doc.createTextNode(third);
first3.appendChild(text3);
//Output the XML

Element first4 = doc.createElement("Address");
root.appendChild(first4);

//add a text element to the child
Text text4 = doc.createTextNode(forth);
first4.appendChild(text4);
//Output the XML
Element first5 = doc.createElement("PostalCode");
root.appendChild(first5);

//add a text element to the child
Text text5 = doc.createTextNode(fifth);
first5.appendChild(text5);
//Output the XML

Element first6 = doc.createElement("Email");
root.appendChild(first6);

//add a text element to the child
Text text6 = doc.createTextNode(sixth);
first6.appendChild(text6);
//Output the XML

//set up a transformer
TransformerFactory transfac = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer trans = transfac.newTransformer();
trans.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
trans.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");

//create string from xml tree
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
StreamResult result = new StreamResult(sw);
DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc);
trans.transform(source, result);
String xmlString = sw.toString();

//print xml
System.out.println("Here's the xml:nn" + xmlString);

} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e);

}
saveXMLDocument("D://example2.xml", doc);
}
public static boolean saveXMLDocument(String fileName, Document doc) {
System.out.println("Saving XML file... " + fileName);
// open output stream where XML Document will be saved
File xmlOutputFile = new File(fileName);
FileOutputStream fos;
Transformer transformer;
try {
fos = new FileOutputStream(xmlOutputFile);
}
catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
System.out.println("Error occured: " + e.getMessage());
return false;
}
// Use a Transformer for output
TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
try {
transformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer();
}
catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
System.out.println("Transformer configuration error: " + e.getMessage());
return false;
}
DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc);
StreamResult result = new StreamResult(fos);
// transform source into result will do save
try {
transformer.transform(source, result);
}
catch (TransformerException e) {
System.out.println("Error transform: " + e.getMessage());
}
System.out.println("XML file saved.");
return true;
}
}