<div class="author"><a href="/user/1" title="View user profile.">Apple</a> - October 22, 2009 - 01:07</div>

class HTMLParseListerInner extends HTMLEditorKit.ParserCallback {
    private ArrayList<String> foundDates = new ArrayList<String>();
    private boolean isDivLink = false;

    public void handleText(char[] data, int pos) {
        if(isDivLink)
        	foundDates.add(new String(data)); // Extracts "Apple" instead of the date.
    }

    public void handleStartTag(HTML.Tag t, MutableAttributeSet a, int pos) {
        String divValue = (String)a.getAttribute(HTML.Attribute.CLASS);
        if (t.toString() == "div" && divValue != null && divValue.equals("author"))
        	isDivLink = true;
    }
}

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.parser.*;

public class ParserCallbackDiv extends HTMLEditorKit.ParserCallback
{
    private boolean isDivLink = false;
    private String divText;

    public void handleEndTag(HTML.Tag tag, int pos)
    {
    	if (tag.equals(HTML.Tag.DIV))
    	{
    		System.out.println( divText );
    		isDivLink = false;
    	}
    }

    public void handleStartTag(HTML.Tag tag, MutableAttributeSet a, int pos)
    {
    	if (tag.equals(HTML.Tag.DIV))
    	{
    		String divValue = (String)a.getAttribute(HTML.Attribute.CLASS);

    	    if ("author".equals(divValue))
    			isDivLink = true;
    	}
    }

    public void handleText(char[] data, int pos)
    {
    	divText = new String(data);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args)
    throws IOException
    {
    	String file = "<div class="author"><a href="/user/1"" +
    		"title="View user profile.">Apple</a> - October 22, 2009 - 01:07</div>";
    	StringReader reader = new StringReader(file);

    	ParserCallbackDiv parser = new ParserCallbackDiv();

    	try
    	{
    		new ParserDelegator().parse(reader, parser, true);
    	}
    	catch (IOException e)
    	{
    		System.out.println(e);
    	}
    }
}