HTML tidy, using XML::LibXML

Turn messy HTML into standards-compliant HTML with all close tags properly noted. Takes STDIN, or a list of files, and result goes on STDOUT.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use XML::LibXML;
print XML::LibXML->new->parse_html_string(join "", <>)->toStringHTML;
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Re: HTML tidy, using XML::LibXML by Matts (Deacon) on Jan 04, 2003 at 17:10 UTC
If you've got sloppy HTML that needs tidying up and XML::LibXML barfs on it, you can change that one-liner to the following three-liner: `my $parser = XML::LibXML->new(); $parser->recover(1); # Set recovery on error flag $parser->parse_html_string(join "", <>)->toStringHTML;` [download] XML::LibXML can also parse SGML. Most people don't know that (probably sucky docs ;-)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: HTML tidy, using XML::LibXML by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Sep 01, 2007 at 05:43 UTC
Don't know if it's accurate but the docs say that won't work- This switch (recover) will only work with XML data rather than HTML data. (Update, July 2010: this does work and has for at least a few years -- don't know if it was always the case; I should have tested back when I initially responded.)	[reply]