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[jira] Resolved: (TIKA-310) Use TagSoup to parse HTML

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-310?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Jukka Zitting resolved TIKA-310.
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       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 0.5

Replaced NekoHTML with TagSoup in revision 825239.

> Use TagSoup to parse HTML
> -------------------------
>
>                 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
>             Fix For: 0.5
>
>
> 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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