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Here’s part 13 of the ongoing serialization of Refactoring HTML, also available from Amazon and Safari.

John Cowan’s TagSoup (http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/) is an open source HTML parser written in Java that implements the Simple API for XML, or SAX. Cowan describes TagSoup as “a SAX-compliant parser written in Java that, instead of parsing well-formed or valid XML, parses HTML as it is found in the wild: poor, nasty and brutish, though quite often far from short. TagSoup is designed for people who have to process this stuff using some semblance of a rational application design. By providing a SAX interface, it allows standard XML tools to be applied to even the worst HTML.”