Problem with Tags

[fabioebner]

In my case I have tags like "
" without "
" than I got the error:

ERROR: 'The element type "br" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "
".'

and " " so I got the error:

ERROR: 'The entity "nbsp" was referenced, but not declared.'

how can I fix this without change all HTML code? (it's from my user)

[rototor]

Sorry, you can't.... you must feed it into JTidy or using JSoup. The normal XML parser won't parse a br which is not terminated correctly (i.e. <br/>).

In my projects I use JTidy to cleanup the HTML and make it wellformed:

	public static String tidyHtml(String htmlString) {
		Tidy tidy = new Tidy();
		tidy.setDocType("omit");
		tidy.setXmlOut(true);
		tidy.setQuiet(true);
		tidy.setTidyMark(false);
		tidy.setWraplen(100_000);
		StringWriter swError = new StringWriter();
		tidy.setErrout(new PrintWriter(swError));
		StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
		tidy.parse(new StringReader(htmlString), sw);
		String tidyHtml = sw.getBuffer().toString();
		tidyHtml = tidyHtml.replaceAll("(\r\n|\n|\r)+\\s*<", "<");
		return tidyHtml;
	}

using this JTidy dependency:

		<dependency>
			<groupId>net.sf.jtidy</groupId>
			<artifactId>jtidy</artifactId>
			<version>r938</version>
		</dependency>

The resulting HTML is then feed to OpenHTMLToPdf.