Use TagSoup to parse HTML
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Key: TIKA-310
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-310
Project: Tika
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: parser
Reporter: Jukka Zitting
Assignee: Jukka Zitting
The NekoHTML library we currently use for parsing HTML has a transitive
dependency on Apache Xerces. The Xerces library is pretty big (1.2MB) and is
known to cause various problems when included in the classpath of an
application or a container that expects some other XML parser library.
The TagSoup library (http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/) provides an
alternative HTML parsing library that works pretty much like NekoHTML but
doesn't depend on Xerces. I suggest we switch from NekoHTML to TagSoup unless
this change causes major regressions in HTML parsing.
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