How to avoid surrounding html head tags in Jsoup parse

Question

Using Jsoup i try to parse the given html content. After Jsoup.parse() the html output append html, head and body tag to the input. I just want to ignore these.

Answer 1

The cause:

parseBodyFragment() as well as all other parse()-methods use a HTML parser by default. And those add always the HTML-Shell (…, … etc.).

The Solution:

Just don't use a HTML-parser, use a XML-parser instead ;-)

Document doc = Jsoup.parse(html, "", Parser.xmlParser());

Replace that single line and your problem is solved.

Example:

final String html = "
This is my sentence of text.
";

Document docHtml = Jsoup.parse(html);
Document docXml = Jsoup.parse(html, "", Parser.xmlParser());

System.out.println("******* HTML *******\n" + docHtml);
System.out.println();
System.out.println("*******  XML *******\n" + docXml);

Output:

******* HTML *******

 
 
  
This is my sentence of text.
 


*******  XML *******
This is my sentence of text.