Richard Jones created TIKA-2539:
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Summary: TagSoup HTML parser is project EOL
Key: TIKA-2539
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2539
Project: Tika
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: parser
Affects Versions: 1.17, 1.16
Environment: All
Reporter: Richard Jones
The TagSoup HTML parser is project EOL, and the last update was to create the
1.2.1 version (that Tika references) back in Aug 2011.
I cannot find any TagSoup forks that are still active but there are many
alternative (and perhaps better if you believe the reviews and wikipedia
comparisons) html parsers out there.
Perhaps the most active is already pulled in by Tika as a transitive dependency
of edu.ucar:grib, and that is jsoup with over 1,000 usages and updates as
recent as a few months ago:
https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.jsoup/jsoup
https://jsoup.org/
Requesting consideration of moving away from the long EOL'd TagSoup to an
active and modern HTML parser like jsoup that is already a transitive Tika
dependency.
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