TagSoup, a SAX-compliant parser written in Java that, instead of parsing
well-formed or valid XML, parses HTML as it is found in the wild: poor,
nasty and brutish, though quite often far from short. TagSoup is designed
for people who have to process this stuff using some semblance of a
rational application design.
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By providing a SAX interface, it allows standard XML tools to be applied
to even the worst HTML. TagSoup also includes a command-line processor
that reads HTML files and can generate either clean HTML or well-formed
XML that is a close approximation to XHTML.
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TagSoup is designed as a parser, not a whole application; it isn't
intended to permanently clean up bad HTML, as HTML Tidy does, only to
parse it on the fly. Therefore, it does not convert presentation HTML
to CSS or anything similar. It does guarantee well-structured results:
tags will wind up properly nested, default attributes will
appear appropriately, and so on.
Installed Size: 132.1 kB
Architectures: all