<dependency> <groupId>org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup</groupId> <artifactId>tagsoup</artifactId> <version>1.2.1</version> </dependency> SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser(); XMLReader reader = parser.getXMLReader(); DefaultHandler handler = new DefaultHandler() { // Override methods to handle XML events }; reader.setContentHandler(handler); reader.parse(new InputSource(new ByteArrayInputStream(html.getBytes())));