Currently, I am trying to clean up an HTML file using JTidy, convert it to XHTML and provide the results to a DOM parser. The following code is the result of these efforts:
public class HeaderBasedNewsProvider implements INewsProvider {
/* ... */
public Collection<INewsEntry> getNewsEntries() throws NewsUnavailableException {
Document document;
try {
document = getCleanedDocument();
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new NewsUnavailableException(e);
}
System.err.println(document.getDocumentElement().getTextContent());
return null;
}
private final Document getCleanedDocument() throws IOException, SAXException, ParserConfigurationException {
InputStream input = inputStreamProvider.getInputStream();
Tidy tidy = new Tidy();
tidy.setXHTML(true);
ByteArrayOutputStream tidyOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
tidy.parse(input, tidyOutputStream);
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
factory.setValidating(false);
InputStream domInputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(tidyOutputStream.toByteArray());
System.err.println(factory.getClass());
return factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(domInputStream);
}
}
However, the DOM parser implementation (com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl) on my system seems to be incredibly slow. Even for one-line documents such as the following, parsing takes 2-3 minutes:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><title></title></head><body><div class="text"><h2>Nachricht vom 16. Juni 2011</h2><h1>Titel</h1><p>Mitteilung <a href="dokumente/medienmitteilungen/MM_NR_jglp.pdf" target="_blank">weiter</a> mehr Mitteilung</p></div></body></html>
Note that – in contrast to the DOM parser – JTidy finishes its work within a second. Therefore, I suspect that I’m somehow misusing the DOM API.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions on this one!
Even when not validating, a XML parser needs to fetch the DTD, for example to support named character entities. You should look into implementing an EntityResolver that resolves the request for the DTD to a local copy.