How to use JAXB with HTML?

Question

I would like to unmarshall some nasty HTML to a Java object using JAXB. (I\'m on Java 7).

Tagsoup is a SAX-compliant XML parser that can handle nasty HTML.

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Answer 1

You can get an UnmarshallerHandler from an Unmarshaller and set that as the ContentHandler on your SAX parser. After you do the SAX parse obtain the object from the UnmarshallerHandler.

UnmarshallerHandler unmarshallerHandler = unmarshaller.getUnmarshallerHandler();
xmlReader.setContentHandler(unmarshallerHandler);
xmlReader.parse(...);
Thing thing = (Thing) unmarshallerHandler.getResult();

There is an example of this on my blog:

• http://blog.bdoughan.com/2011/05/jaxb-and-dtd.html