jquery like lib in java

I am looking for a simple lightweight java library that parses HTML. I have looked a lot and there are many options out there. But I cannot find something simple. I really would like to have something like pyquery in python except in java. My requirements are: fast, easy to use and lightweight.

What do I need it for? Not sure if this matters, but I need to index parts of an html documents. So I am hoping to be able 开发者_开发知识库to select part of that document quickly and then parse it.

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I have used HTMLParser in the past. I wasn't very happy with it. I found tagsoup and jsoup. I really like jsoup. Haven't used it extensively yet but you can do something like:

Elements resultLinks = doc.select("h3 > a"); // direct a after h3

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try groovy. It has a number of "slurpers," which are DSLs for reading in markup like XML and HTML, as well as JSON. here for example.

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Use tagsoup to normalize the HTML into xhtml, and XOM to parse the resulting document. It's not that hard.

XPath will give you easy selection similiar to CSS selectors.

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Look at Jerry which looks very promising http://jodd.org/doc/jerry/