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 ?

Answer 2

Here is how we are calling JTidy from Ant. You may infer the API call from it:

<tidy destdir="${build.dir.result}">
  <fileset dir="${src}" includes="**/*.htm"/>
  <parameter name="tidy-mark" value="false"/>
  <parameter name="output-xml" value="no"/>
  <parameter name="numeric-entities" value="yes"/>
  <parameter name="indent-spaces" value="2"/>
  <parameter name="indent-attributes" value="no"/>
  <parameter name="markup" value="yes"/>
  <parameter name="wrap" value="2000"/>
  <parameter name="uppercase-tags" value="no"/>
  <parameter name="uppercase-attributes" value="no"/>
  <parameter name="quiet" value="no"/>
  <parameter name="clean" value="yes"/>
  <parameter name="show-warnings" value="yes"/>
  <parameter name="break-before-br" value="yes"/>
  <parameter name="hide-comments" value="yes"/>
  <parameter name="char-encoding" value="latin1"/>
  <parameter name="output-html" value="yes"/>
</tidy>

Answer 3

Well, this seems to be a bug in Jtidy. For the exact file which causes problems, refer here:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2985849&group_id=13153&atid=113153

Thanks for all the help folks!