Comments on: TagSoup

By: naveen

naveen — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:42:42 +0000

hi, am unable to access the file tagsoup-1.2.jar

the command that i gave is
c:\>java -jar tagsoup-1.2.jar –html test.html

i also tried with
c:\>java -jar tagsoup-1.2 –html test.html

the jar file is inside java /lib/tagsoup-1.2.jar

how do i start working with tagsoup??

By: SpudTater

SpudTater — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:14:46 +0000

> It uses start-tag and end-tag pairs for empty elements such as br and hr, which may confuse some older browsers

Not only that, but this is invalid according to the W3C validator. Does anybody know if this behaviour can be changed when using TagSoup as a library, and if so, how?

By: Ewa

Ewa — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:06:18 +0000

You can also use TagSoup in XMLSpy. Here is a blog entry which describes how to integrate TagSoup as external tool in the XML editor: http://www.spycomponents.com/sphpblog/index.php?m=07&y=08&entry=entry080702-211603

Regards

By: John Cowan

John Cowan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:06:27 +0000

I’d also point out the existence of TSaxon (TagSoup + XSLT) and the fact that, unlike Tidy, TagSoup can’t loop no matter how bad the input is — you always get output. This makes it extremely robust in a pipeline that needs to process billyuns and billyuns of documents.