"Tip: Rescue terrible HTML with TagSoup"

Well, since I've so emphatically broken my Weblogging pause for The Cup, I'd better post some professional items.

Subtitle: Turn poorly formed HTML into valid XHTML
Synopsis: XHTML is a friendly enough format for parsing and screen-scraping, but the Web still has a lot of messy HTML out there. In this tip Uche Ogbuji demonstrates the use of TagSoup to turn just about any HTML into neat XHTML.

TagSoup is very handy. EVen though it's a Java project I put it to use from Python code fairly often. It also recently went full 1.0.

[Uche Ogbuji]

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Uche Ogbuji

(Note the Copia blog historically has many posts by my brother Chimezie Ogbuji. They should be marked with the byline as such.) I'm a Nigerian-American entrepreneur, software engineer and writer who lives near Boulder, Colorado with my wife, three sons and daughter. I studied Electronic Engineering at The University of Nigeria at Nsukka, and Computer Engineering at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. I was co-founder of Fourthought, Inc. in 1998, which I ran until 2007, when I co-founded Zepheira. I'm also a poet and editor (Kin Poetry Journal & The Nervous Breakdown). In my spare time I train in AKKI Kenpo, skateboard, snowboard, play and coach soccer. Google profile

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