Converts old HTML Files into ones with new formatting based on a template file by selecting the elements that are different in each file (title and links) and placing them into the tag placeholders hard-coded in the template file.

HTMLFormatConverter.java

/* Sarabeth Jaffe
 * Converts old HTML Files into ones with new formatting based on a template file by selecting the 
 * elements that are different in each file (title and links) and places them into the
 * tag placeholders hard-coded in the template file.
 * 
 * References: Stack Overflow
 */
import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Element;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
import org.jsoup.select.Elements;
import java.io.*;
import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

public class HTMLFormatConverter {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        Document doc;
        try {

            doc = Jsoup.connect("http://www.google.com").get();

            String title = doc.title();
            System.out.println("Title: " + title);

            String links_html = "";
            
            // get all links
            Elements links = doc.select("a[href]");
            for (Element link : links) {

                 System.out.println("\n link : " + link.absUrl("href"));//gets the absolute link address aka including http://www...
                 System.out.println("text : " + link.text());//link label text

                 //disincluding some links that i don't want in the new html formatted pages
                if (!link.text().equals("Return to Manuals") && !link.text().equals("Training Site") && !link.text().equals("Intranet")) {

                    //create a string of html commands that i can just insert into the file
                    links_html += "<li> <a href = \" " + link.absUrl("href") + " \" " + ">" + link.text() + "</a> </li>";
                }
                
            }

            make_into_html(title, links_html);

        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("IOException thrown.")
        }
    }

    public static void make_into_html(String title, String links_html) {

        try {
            
            //dealing with coldfusion files
            File htmlTemplateFile = new File("template.cfm");//can change the file extension to anything you want

            String htmlString = FileUtils.readFileToString(htmlTemplateFile);

            String body = links_html;
            htmlString = htmlString.replace("$title", title);
            htmlString = htmlString.replace("$body", body);//replace sections of html using tags
            
            File newHtmlFile = new File(title + ".cfm");//create new html file with newly replace sections
            
            FileUtils.writeStringToFile(newHtmlFile, htmlString);//write new string of html commands to newHtmlFile
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Exception thrown.");
        }
    }
}