HTML page for XHTML using TagSoup

Question

Sorry if this is too easy, but I just couldn't find the tutorial and documentation of the Java version of TagSoup.

Basically, I want to download an HTML web page from the Internet and turn it into XHTML contained in a string. How to do it with TagSoup?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Something like that:

wget -O - example.com/bad.html | java -jar tagsoup.jar

Or, from Java:

HTML parsing:

• Create instance org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup.Parser
• Provide your own SAX2 ContentHandler
• Provide InputSourceHTML Link
• And parse()!

Answer 2

Below is the code that should give you the opportunity to display a web page and analyze it using TagSoup ...

        HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpGet request = new HttpGet("http://streak.espn.go.com/en/?date=20120824");
        HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);

        // Check if server response is valid
        StatusLine status = response.getStatusLine();
        if (status.getStatusCode() != 200) {
            throw new IOException("Invalid response from server: " + status.toString());
        }

        // Pull content stream from response
        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
        InputStream inputStream = entity.getContent();

        try
        {
            XMLReader parser = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader("org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup.Parser");

            // Use the TagSoup parser to build an XOM document from HTML
            Document doc = new Builder(parser).build(builder.toString());

            // Push your data to string or XML
            doc.toString();
            doc.toXML();
        }
        catch(IOException e)
        { ... }