HTML parsing using DOM-Java

Question

I want to parse a HTML file using Java and i have used DocumentBuilder class for it. My HTML contains a <img src="xyz"> tag, without a closing </img> tag,which is allowed in browser.But when i give it to DocumentBuilder for parsing it gives me this error

The element type "img" must be terminated by the matching end-tag </img>.

Java :

DocumentBuilderFactory docBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder docBuilder = docBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document document = docBuilder.parse(is);

What should i do to get rid of this error?

Answer 1

DocumentBuilder is part of Java's XML parsing framework. An XML parser will not correctly parse HTML: the languages look similar, but XML has stricter requirements. (You've already seen one of the differences: in XML, all tags should have a matching end tag, while in HTML some tags do and some don't.)

Try a HTML parser instead. I've heard good things about jsoup (http://jsoup.org/).