JSOUP Unable to parse html string to document if a node value contains like

Asked Sep 22 '21 at 16:01

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Try to covert the HTML String to document through JSoup and failing with invalid XML characters.

This error possibly can happen when user copy email address from outlook.

It looks like, JSoup possibly could fail if a text with special characters preceded with >. Example, <test@>,<test!>.

<html>
<table>
<tr>
   <td>
        <test@test.com>
   </td>
 </tr>
</table>
</html>

Any idea, can make this works?

asked Sep 22 '21 at 16:01

Shaan

Can you use a custom `jsoup` `whitelist` to allow such entries? – pleft Sep 22 '21 at 16:05
Actually I tried that and it stripped off the value between <> – Shaan Sep 22 '21 at 16:22
can you share your code. what you tried? – pleft Sep 22 '21 at 17:10
My suggestion would be to preprocess the content with a regex that finds these wrapped email addresses and escapes them (or does whatever you want). jsoup is a HTML parser, and that... isn't. – Jonathan Hedley Sep 23 '21 at 03:26
It looks that's the only option has left. Need to escape the HTML ASCII character and process them back. – Shaan Sep 24 '21 at 11:36

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