HTML Cleaner

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Last updated: Jul 20, 2018 Certified 100% FREE BSD License

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Basic and simple-to-use HTML code parser to quickly clean up HTML and XML files or links, which lets you customize cleaning properties. #Parse HTML #HTML parser #Format source code #Parse #HTML #Cleaner

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HTML Cleaner is an intuitive and speedy application written in Java, designed to turn messy HTML code into organized XML code by reordering individual elements. It gives you the possibility to customize settings, such as omitting comments, unknown tags and XML declarations, as well as allowing multi-word attributes and HTML inside attributes.

The utility is available in both command-line and GUI form, and it doesn't require any other installation besides Java. You can drop the program files anywhere on the hard drive or on a removable storage unit to directly run HTML Cleaner on any PC with Java. It shouldn't modify any Windows registry settings.

The GUI is user-friendly, represented by a single window which shows buttons for establishing the input and output file, as well as for editing HTML tidy properties. Apart from specifying an HTML or XML file as the source, you can also indicate a link.

As far as cleaning parameters are concerned, you can enable advanced XML-Escape mode, translate special entities, recognize Unicode characters, use CDATA for the script and style, omit unknown and deprecated tags, or identify unknown and deprecated tags as content.

It's possible to skip comments along with XML and Doctype declarations, use empty element tags, allow multi-word attributes and HTML code inside attributes, activate namespace awareness, ignore question and exclamation marks, as well as pick the HTML version to use between HTML 4 and HTML 5.

All cleaner parameters are explained online at the developer's website, and this page can be accessed from the main application window with one click.

The software tool worked smoothly in our tests, without triggering the OS to hang, crash or prompt error messages. It cleaned HTML code swiftly while remaining light on system resources consumption. Too bad that it doesn't integrate an option for previewing results, in order to make adjustments before creating the new file. Otherwise, HTML Cleaner proves to be reliable for cleaning up basic HTML code, and it's very easy to use.