Is there an alternative to HTML Tidy?

Question

I have embedded HTML Tidy in my application to clean incoming HTML. But Tidy has a huge amount of bugs and fixing them directly in the source is my worst nightmare. Tidy source

Answer 1

Could you tell us what you plan to use this tool for? As in, do you want to fix static web pages, or do you want some sort of filtering step before other manipulations, so that some tool can handle buggy web pages?

Personally, I write my own tool atop Python's BeautifulSoup or lxml whenever I need to --- it's at most a dozen line script and does much of what I want.