Apache Ant/Cleaning up HTML

Motivation We want to clean up HTML that is not well formed. We will use the Apache Tika tools to convert dirty HTML to well-formed XHTML. Sample Ant File <project name="tika tests" default="extract-xhtml-from-html"> <description>Sample invocations of Apache Tika</description> <property name="lib.dir" value="../lib"/> <property name="input-dirty-html-file" value="input-dirty.html"/> <property name="output-clean-xhtml-file" value="output-clean.xhtml"/> <target name="extract-xhtml-from-html"> <echo message="Cleaning up dirty HTML file: ${input-dirty-html-file} to ${output-clean-xhtml-file}"/> <java jar="${lib.dir}/tika-app-1.3.jar" fork="true" failonerror="true" maxmemory="128m" input="${input-dirty-html-file}" output="${output-clean-xhtml-file}"> <arg value="-x" /> </java> </target> </project> Sample Input <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Dirty HTML</title> </head> <body> <p><b>test</b></p> <p><b>test<b></p> <p>test<br/>test</p> <p>test<br>test<br>test</p> <p>This is <B>bold, <I>bold italic, </b>italic, </i>normal text</p> </body> </html> Sample Output <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta name="Content-Encoding" content="ISO-8859-1"/> <meta name="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml"/> <meta name="dc:title" content="Dirty HTML"/> <title>Dirty HTML</title> </head> <body> <p>test</p> <p>test</p> <p>test test</p> <p>test test test</p> <p>This is bold, bold italic, italic, normal text</p> </body></html>