Woodstox Without Validation (for HTML5)

augus...@gmail.com

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Oct 21, 2019, 1:57:31 PM10/21/19

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Hi!

I'm using Woodstox to iterate through HTML5 documents, and write to file with a script tag inserted into the body. I don't need validation, or any feature other than finding the <body> tag, and inserting <script>. Woodstox works great even though it wasn't designed for HTML. But it fails when encountering a lowercase doctype declaration, boolean attributes, unclosed tags, and other HTML5 quirks.

Is there a way to disable validation?

Tatu Saloranta

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Oct 21, 2019, 2:01:15 PM10/21/19

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That is not technically validation (validation refers to checking XML Schema or DTD conformance), but well-formedness check.

But no, there is no way to disable that in general: it is core part of what XML parsers are required to do (validation is actually optional fwtw).

You will probably instead want to use HTML parsers like JSoup

https://jsoup.org/

(or NekoHTML, JTidy or other choices -> https://mvnrepository.com/tags/html )

I hope this helps.

-+ Tatu +-

August Nagro

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Oct 21, 2019, 2:08:55 PM10/21/19

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Ok, thank you!

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