How to process invalid HTML documents from web with library which wants proper HTML

Question

I am getting this error while parsing a web site . ERROR: 'The declaration for the entity "ContentType" must end with '>'.' or input type must b closed

1: fix the input, 2 fix the library so that it can handle incorect html — Björn Mårtensson, Mar 08 '13 at 10:19
Try [jsoup](http://jsoup.org/), it can deal with brocken html. — A4L, Mar 08 '13 at 10:19

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 08 '13 at 10:19

Have you considered JTidy ?

JTidy is a Java port of HTML Tidy, a HTML syntax checker and pretty printer. Like its non-Java cousin, JTidy can be used as a tool for cleaning up malformed and faulty HTML. In addition, JTidy provides a DOM parser for real-world HTML.

Obviously at some point it will struggle with the HTML depending on how badly-formed it is, but you may find this works for you.

How to process invalid HTML documents from web with library which wants proper HTML

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