Is there some way to make JAVA get certain elements from a webpage?

Question

I have an app that accesses a forum's rss feed, now, I need to know if there is some way to get the app to access the page relevant to a feed item without having to download the page. Say i have a feed item for item 12345, and I want java to go to the URL for thread 12345 and get me the first post, is there some way of doing this?

also, for this app I download the whole RSS feed XML, can I also just crawl through the xml without having to download it?

thanks!

Answer 1

you could try using this  

document.getElementbyId("the-name-of-t...