What is the best way to parse html in google apps script

Question

var page = UrlFetchApp.fetch(contestURL);
var doc = XmlService.parse(page);

The above code gives a parse error when used, however if I replace the

Answer 1

Xml.parse() has an option to turn on lenient parsing, which helps when parsing HTML. Note that the Xml service is deprecated however, and the newer XmlService doesn't have this functionality.