Erik,
Probably a good idea to swap something else in, although Neko introduces a dependency on Xerces. I didn't play with Neko because I am currently using a different XML parser and didn't want to deal with the conflicts (and also find dependencies on specific parsers annoying). However, yesterday I downloaded TagSoup(http://mercury.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/) and it is great! It is small and fast and so far has parsed every page I've thrown at it. I wrote a SAX ContentHandler that only grabs the text and does a few other little things (like inserting spaces, removing tabs/line feeds, grabbing title) and it seems to be a perfect fit for the job. It requires the SAX framework, but is parser independent. The only tweak I made to the TagSoup code was to add an "else" to deal with a bug where it was consuming ";" after entities that it did not deal with.
TagSoup is great - however, it is not maintained nor developed (the same could be said about JTidy as well, but TagSoup's history is much shorter...). I'm using HTMLParser (http://htmlparser.sourceforge.net) for my application, and it also works very well, even for ill-formed input. It's also very actively developed.
-- Best regards, Andrzej Bialecki
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