Comparison_of_HTML_parsers

Comparison of HTML parsers

Comparison of HTML parsers

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HTML parsers are software for automated Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) parsing. They have two main purposes:

  • HTML traversal: offer an interface for programmers to easily access and modify the "HTML string code". Canonical example: DOM parsers.
  • HTML clean: to fix invalid HTML and to improve the layout and indent style of the resulting markup. Canonical example: HTML Tidy.
More information Parser, License ...
* Latest release (of significant changes) date.
** sanitize (generating standard-compatible web-page, reduce spam, etc.) and clean (strip out surplus presentational tags, remove XSS code, etc.) HTML code.
*** Updates HTML4.X to XHTML or to HTML5, converting deprecated tags (ex. CENTER) to valid ones (ex. DIV with style="text-align:center;").

References

  1. [1]
    12.2 Parsing HTML documents — HTML Standard Archived 2013-01-16 at the Wayback Machine
  2. [2]
    HTML Tidy release 5.8.0
  3. [3]
    What is Tidy?
  4. [4]
    HtmlUnit 3.7.0
  5. [5]
    Beautiful Soup release 4.10
  6. [6]
    jsoup Java HTML Parser release 1.17.2
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