Proper usage of JTidy to purify HTML

Question

I am trying to use JTidy (jtidy-r938.jar) to sanitize an input HTML string, but I seem to have problems getting the default settings right. Often strings such as \"hello wor

Answer 1

Have a look at how JTidy is configured:

StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
tidy.getConfiguration().printConfigOptions(writer, true);
System.out.println(writer.toString());

Maybe it then get clear what causes the problem.

What is weird? Little example, of actual output and expected... maybe ?