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I was using Cobra until now because of how easy it was but unfortunately it had some problem with a few test cases. Does anyone suggest a tried-and-tested library?

I've tried Cobra's built in one and HTMLCleaner without any luck.

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  • Judging by your last question, the problem isn't with "XPath evaluator". You were using XPathFactory.newInstance(), which creates the stock Java evaluator that works on any XML document loaded in a DOM model (as instance of Document). CORBA itself isn't an XPath evaluator - it's an HTML parser which produces Document, and it did that wrong in your case. So what you actually want is a "good Java HTML parser", not "good Java XPath evaluator".
    – Pavel Minaev
    Commented Nov 26, 2009 at 23:55
  • Oops... sorry. I've revised my question... I'm just going nuts with all the HTML in front of my eyes...
    – Legend
    Commented Nov 27, 2009 at 0:05
  • I'm sure this same question was on SO earlier this week...
    – DisgruntledGoat
    Commented Nov 27, 2009 at 0:36

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TagSoup is really great when dealing with crappy HTML/XHTML.

Jericho (and NekoHTML) are good too to parse non valid HTML.

TagSoup and Jericho: tried-and-tested. NekoHTML: feedback from trustable source.

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Mozilla HTML Parser looks rather interesting. By definition, it's supposed to be as good as Gecko engine itself, which is likely to cover your needs.

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Take a look at Saxon (no, I'm not involved in any way with the product, just a satisfied user).

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  • Saxon is an awesome XSLT 2.0 & XQuery implementation, but it doesn't parse HTML.
    – Pavel Minaev
    Commented Nov 27, 2009 at 0:10
  • @Pavel - The original question didn't mention HTML
    – Jim Garrison
    Commented Nov 27, 2009 at 2:31
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[Answering the title - the overall question and comments are not consistsent]

JTidy (https://jtidy.sourceforge.net/) is a port of Dave Raggett's HTMLTidy. It's very useful though I think development may have slowed/ceased.

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I suggest Validator.nu's parser, based on the HTML5 parsing algorithm. (Mozilla is currently in the process of replacing its own HTML parser with this one.)

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