I need to parse non well-formed xml data (HTML)

Question

I have some non well-formed xml (HTML) data in JAVA, I used JAXP Dom, but It complains.

The Question is :Is there any way to use JAXP to parse such documents ??

I have a file containing data such as :

<employee>
 <name value="ahmed" > <!-- note, this element is not closed, So it is not well-formed xml-->
</employee>

Answer 1

You could try running your document through the jtidy API first - that has the ability to convert html into valid xhtml: http://jtidy.sourceforge.net/howto.html

Tidy tidy = new Tidy();
tidy.setXHTML(true);
tidy.parse(......)...