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htmlTree

Parsed HTML tree

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Description

An htmlTree object represents a parsed HTML element or node. Extract parts of interest using the findElement function or the Children property, and extract text using the extractHTMLText function.

Creation

Syntax

tree = htmlTree(code)

Description

tree = htmlTree(code) parses the HTML code in the string code and returns the resulting tree structure.

Tip

To parse XML code, use the readstruct function.

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Input Arguments

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HTML code, specified as a string array, a character vector, or a cell array of character vectors.

Tip

Example: "<a href='https://www.mathworks.com'>MathWorks</a>"

Data Types: char | string | cell

Properties

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Direct descendants of the element, specified as an htmlTree array.

Parent node in the tree, specified as an htmlTree object.

If the HTML tree is a root node, then the value of Parent is missing.

HTML element name, specified as a string scalar.

For more information, see HTML Elements.

Object Functions

findElementFind elements in HTML tree
getAttributeRead HTML attribute of root node of HTML tree
extractHTMLTextExtract text from HTML
ismissingFind HTML trees without values

Examples

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Open Live Script

Read HTML code from the URL https://www.mathworks.com/help/textanalytics using webread.

url = "https://www.mathworks.com/help/textanalytics";
code = webread(url);

Parse the HTML code using htmlTree.

tree = htmlTree(code);

View the element name of the root node of the tree.

tree.Name
ans = 
"HTML"

View the children of the root node.

tree.Children
ans = 
  4×1 htmlTree:

    " "
    <HEAD><TITLE>Text Analytics Toolbox Documentation</TITLE><META charset="utf-8"/><META content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" name="viewport"/><META content="IE=edge" http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible"/><LINK href="/includes_content/responsive/css/bootstrap/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/><LINK href="/includes_content/responsive/css/site6.css?201903" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/><LINK href="/includes_content/responsive/css/site6_lg.css?201903" media="screen and (min-width: 1200px)" rel="stylesheet"/><LINK href="/includes_content/responsive/css/site6_md.css?201903" media="screen and (min-width: 992px) and (max-width: 1199px)" rel="stylesheet"/><LINK href="/includes_content/responsive/css/site6_sm+xs.css?201903" media="screen and (max-width: 991px)" rel="stylesheet"/><LINK href="/includes_content/responsive/css/site6_sm.css?201903" media="screen and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 991px)" rel="stylesheet"/><LINK href="/includes_content/responsive/css/site6_…
    " "
    <BODY id="responsive_offcanvas"><!-- Mobile TopNav: Start --><DIV class="header visible-xs visible-sm" id="header_mobile" translate="no"><NAV class="navbar navbar-default" role="navigation"><DIV class="container-fluid"><DIV class="row"><DIV class="col-xs-12"><DIV class="navbar-header"><BUTTON class="navbar-toggle topnav_toggle" data-target="#topnav_collapse" data-toggle="collapse" type="button"><SPAN class="sr-only">Toggle Main Navigation</SPAN><SPAN class="icon-menu"/></BUTTON><A class="svg_link navbar-brand" href="https://www.mathworks.com?s_tid=gn_logo"><IMG alt="MathWorks" class="mw_logo" src="/images/responsive/global/pic-header-mathworks-logo.svg"/></A></DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV class="row visible-xs visible-sm"><DIV class="col-xs-12"><DIV class="navbar-collapse collapse" id="topnav_collapse"><UL class="nav navbar-nav" id="topnav"><LI class="headernav_login"><A class="mwa-nav_login" href="https://www.mathworks.com/login?uri=http://www.mathworks.com/help/textanalytics/index.html">Sign…

Extract the text from the HTML tree using extractHTMLText.

str = extractHTMLText(tree)
str = 
    "Text Analytics Toolbox™ provides algorithms and visualizations for preprocessing, analyzing, and modeling text data. Models created with the toolbox can be used in applications such as sentiment analysis, predictive maintenance, and topic modeling.
     
     Text Analytics Toolbox includes tools for processing raw text from sources such as equipment logs, news feeds, surveys, operator reports, and social media. You can extract text from popular file formats, preprocess raw text, extract individual words, convert text into numerical representations, and build statistical models.
     
     Using machine learning techniques such as LSA, LDA, and word embeddings, you can find clusters and create features from high-dimensional text datasets. Features created with Text Analytics Toolbox can be combined with features from other data sources to build machine learning models that take advantage of textual, numeric, and other types of data."
Open Live Script

Read HTML code from the URL https://www.mathworks.com/help/textanalytics using the webread function.

url = "https://www.mathworks.com/help/textanalytics";
code = webread(url);

Parse the HTML code using htmlTree.

tree = htmlTree(code);

Find all the hyperlinks in the HTML tree using findElement. The hyperlinks are nodes with element name "A".

selector = "A";
subtrees = findElement(tree,selector);

View the first few subtrees.

subtrees(1:10)
ans = 
  10×1 htmlTree:

    <A class="skip_link sr-only" href="#content_container">Skip to content</A>
    <A href="https://www.mathworks.com?s_tid=gn_logo" class="svg_link navbar-brand"><IMG src="/images/responsive/global/pic-header-mathworks-logo.svg" class="mw_logo" alt="MathWorks"/></A>
    <A href="https://www.mathworks.com/products.html?s_tid=gn_ps">Products</A>
    <A href="https://www.mathworks.com/solutions.html?s_tid=gn_sol">Solutions</A>
    <A href="https://www.mathworks.com/academia.html?s_tid=gn_acad">Academia</A>
    <A href="https://www.mathworks.com/support.html?s_tid=gn_supp">Support</A>
    <A href="https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/?s_tid=gn_mlc">Community</A>
    <A href="https://www.mathworks.com/company/events.html?s_tid=gn_ev">Events</A>
    <A href="https://www.mathworks.com/products/get-matlab.html?s_tid=gn_getml">Get MATLAB</A>
    <A href="https://www.mathworks.com?s_tid=gn_logo" class="svg_link pull-left"><IMG src="/images/responsive/global/pic-header-mathworks-logo.svg" class="mw_logo" alt="MathWorks"/></A>

Extract the text from the subtrees using extractHTMLText. The result contains the link text from each link on the page.

str = extractHTMLText(subtrees);
str(1:10)
ans = 10×1 string
    "Skip to content"
    ""
    "Products"
    "Solutions"
    "Academia"
    "Support"
    "Community"
    "Events"
    "Get MATLAB"
    ""
Open Live Script

Read HTML code from the URL https://www.mathworks.com/help/textanalytics using webread.

url = "https://www.mathworks.com/help/textanalytics";
code = webread(url);

Parse the HTML code using htmlTree.

tree = htmlTree(code);

Find all the hyperlinks in the HTML tree using findElement. The hyperlinks are the nodes with element name "A".

selector = "A";
subtrees = findElement(tree,selector);
subtrees(1:10)
ans = 
  10×1 htmlTree:

    <A class="svg_link navbar-brand" href="https://www.mathworks.com?s_tid=gn_logo"><IMG alt="MathWorks" class="mw_logo" src="/images/responsive/global/pic-header-mathworks-logo.svg"/></A>
    <A class="mwa-nav_login" href="https://www.mathworks.com/login?uri=http://www.mathworks.com/help/textanalytics/index.html">Sign In</A>
    <A href="https://www.mathworks.com/products.html?s_tid=gn_ps">Products</A>
    <A href="https://www.mathworks.com/solutions.html?s_tid=gn_sol">Solutions</A>
    <A href="https://www.mathworks.com/academia.html?s_tid=gn_acad">Academia</A>
    <A href="https://www.mathworks.com/support.html?s_tid=gn_supp">Support</A>
    <A href="https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/?s_tid=gn_mlc">Community</A>
    <A href="https://www.mathworks.com/company/events.html?s_tid=gn_ev">Events</A>
    <A href="https://www.mathworks.com/company/aboutus/contact_us.html?s_tid=gn_cntus">Contact Us</A>
    <A href="https://www.mathworks.com/store?s_cid=store_top_nav&amp;s_tid=gn_store">How to Buy</A>

Get the hyperlink references using getAttribute. Specify the attribute name "href".

attr = "href";
str = getAttribute(subtrees,attr);
str(1:10)
ans = 10×1 string array
    "https://www.mathworks.com?s_tid=gn_logo"
    "https://www.mathworks.com/login?uri=http://www.mathworks.com/help/textanalytics/index.html"
    "https://www.mathworks.com/products.html?s_tid=gn_ps"
    "https://www.mathworks.com/solutions.html?s_tid=gn_sol"
    "https://www.mathworks.com/academia.html?s_tid=gn_acad"
    "https://www.mathworks.com/support.html?s_tid=gn_supp"
    "https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/?s_tid=gn_mlc"
    "https://www.mathworks.com/company/events.html?s_tid=gn_ev"
    "https://www.mathworks.com/company/aboutus/contact_us.html?s_tid=gn_cntus"
    "https://www.mathworks.com/store?s_cid=store_top_nav&s_tid=gn_store"
Open Live Script

Read HTML code from the URL https://www.mathworks.com/help/textanalytics using the webread function.

url = "https://www.mathworks.com/help/textanalytics";
code = webread(url);

Parse the HTML code using the htmlTree function.

tree = htmlTree(code);

Find all the paragraphs in the HTML tree using the findElement function. The paragraphs are the nodes with element name "P".

subtrees = findElement(tree,"P");

Convert the subtrees to string using the string function.

str = string(subtrees)
str = 18×1 string
    "<P class="h1">↵  <A href="../index.html">Help Center</A>↵</P>"
    "<P>Text Analytics Toolbox™ provides algorithms and visualizations for preprocessing, analyzing, and modeling text data. Models created with the toolbox can be used in applications such as sentiment analysis, predictive maintenance, and topic modeling.</P>"
    "<P>Text Analytics Toolbox includes tools for processing raw text from sources such as equipment logs, news feeds, surveys, operator reports, and social media. You can extract text from popular file formats, preprocess raw text, extract individual words, convert text into numerical representations, and build statistical models.</P>"
    "<P>Using machine learning techniques such as LSA, LDA, and word embeddings, you can find clusters and create features from high-dimensional text datasets. Features created with Text Analytics Toolbox can be combined with features from other data sources to build machine learning models that take advantage of textual, numeric, and other types of data.</P>"
    "<P class="category_desc">Learn the basics of Text Analytics Toolbox</P>"
    "<P class="category_desc">Import text data into MATLAB<SUP>®</SUP> and preprocess it for analysis</P>"
    "<P class="category_desc">Develop predictive models using topic models and word embeddings</P>"
    "<P class="category_desc">Visualize text data and models using word clouds and text scatter plots</P>"
    "<P class="category_desc">Information on language support in Text Analytics Toolbox</P>"
    "<P>You clicked a link that corresponds to this MATLAB command:</P>"
    "<P>Run the command by entering it in the MATLAB Command Window. Web browsers do not support MATLAB commands.</P>"
    "<P class="h1 icon-globe icon_color_secondary" id="country-unselected-title">Select a Web Site</P>"
    "<P>Choose a web site to get translated content where available and see local events and offers. Based on your location, we recommend that you select: <STRONG class="recommended-country"/>.</P>"
    "<P>You can also select a web site from the following list:</P>"
    "<P>Select the China site (in Chinese or English) for best site performance. Other MathWorks country sites are not optimized for visits from your location.</P>"
    "<P class="text-center">↵  <A href="#" class="worldwide_link">Contact your local office</A>↵</P>"
    "<P class="copyright" translate="no">© 1994-2024 The MathWorks, Inc.</P>"
    "<P>↵  <EM>Join the conversation</EM>↵</P>"

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Introduced in R2018b

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