What's the meaning of 'soup' in jsoup and Beautiful Soup?

Question

What's the meaning of "soup" in jsoup and Beautiful Soup, and why it is called "soup"?

Answer 1

It's BeautifulSoup, and is named after so-called 'tag soup', which refers to "syntactically or structurally incorrect HTML written for a web page", from the Wikipedia definition.

jsoup is the Java version of Beautiful Soup.

Answer 2

According to wiki "Beautiful Soup is a Python library for parsing HTML documents (including having malformed markup, i.e. non-closed tags, so named after Tag soup)."

Those were named after Tag soup

Reference : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Soup