Java package to correct html errors

[Chanchal]

Hello

Anyone knows about any java packages which can read an HTML code (from
a file or as a string input) and return it as a 'well-formatted'
HTML ?

Thanks

Chanchal

 

[Roedy Green]

Anyone knows about any java packages which can read an HTML code (from
a file or as a string input) and return it as a 'well-formatted'
HTML ?

TagSoup makes a stab at it.

http://mindprod.com/jgloss/tagsoup.html

To detect errors, see
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/htmlvalidator.html
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~ Richard Heinberg, The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies

 

[Martin Gregorie]

Anyone knows about any java packages which can read an HTML code (from a
file or as a string input) and return it as a 'well-formatted' HTML ?

Take a look at Jtidy on the HTML-tidy website:
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

I haven't used the Java version, but if its anything like as good as the
C 'tidy' utility it should do the trick.

 

[Tom Anderson]

Anyone knows about any java packages which can read an HTML code (from a
file or as a string input) and return it as a 'well-formatted' HTML ?

TagSoup, JTidy and NekoHTML can all be used this way. IME, TagSoup is the
most liberal parser, and NekoHTML is the most strict, but still deals well
with HTML as it is found in the wild.

tom

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that particular computations are possible, expressed in a formal system
called a programming language - are utterly meaningless. To write a
computer program you have to come to terms with this, to accept that
whatever you might want the program to mean, the machine will blindly
follow its meaningless rules and come to some meaningless conclusion. --
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[Mike Amling]

Anyone knows about any java packages which can read an HTML code (from
a file or as a string input) and return it as a 'well-formatted'
HTML ?

I use the JTidy (http://jtidy.sourceforge.net) that others have
mentioned. I find that its -asxhtml option, which converts to XHTML,
makes the output easily parsable.

--Mike Amling