how to skip well-formedness check XML

Question

Hi,

I am using Xpath (and java) to extract information from some websites. However my problem is that since some of these websites are not well-formed, I cannot process them. Is there any way to avoid well-formedness check or alternatively specify tags that should'nt be checked for well-formedness?

Thanks Rp

Answer 1

Preprocess with Tidy.

Answer 2

You probably don't want to use an XML parser to parse HTML. You'd be better off using a library such as HtmlUnit or HtmlParser.

Answer 3

TagSoup is a SAX-compliant parser written in Java that can handle all kind of broken HTML. Try to use TagSoup as your XML parser and then process the output through Xpath.

Answer 4

Check out http://nekohtml.sourceforge.net/ for turning the HTML into a DOM object

Answer 5

mirdita si je a je ir