Java library for HTML analysis

Question

(I've seen similar questions, but I think none of them cater to my specific needs, hence...)

I would like to know if there is a Java library for analysis of real-world (read: incomplete, ill-formed) HTML. By analysis, I mean things like:

• figuring out the most prominent color in an HTML chunk
• changing that color to some other color (hence, has to support modification of the HTML as well)
• pruning out unwanted tags
• fixing up the HTML to result in a well formed HTML snippet

Parts of the last two are done by libraries such as Jericho, and jTidy. 'Plugins' on top of these would be great.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You might want to check out TagSoup:

http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/