Javascript XHTML Purifier

Forked from the wonderful javascript-xhtml-purifier

This script provides a method to cleanup dirty html. It will take a string of dirty and badly formatted html, and return a pretty printed valid XHTML string.

Usage

require('xhtml-purifier').purify(html_string);

About the Implementation

The purifying is based on section 8.2 in the HTML5 specification, and implements a subset of the algorithm described there.

Only a limited set of the permitted HTML5 elements and attributes are permitted, and all other tags/attributes will simply be gone in the resulting XHTML.

Allowed elements

• strong (b and all headers will currently be transformed to strong)
• em
• blockquote
• ol
• ul
• li
• p
• pre
• a
• img
• br
• table
• caption
• col
• colgroup
• tbody
• td
• tfoot
• th
• thead
• tr

All other elements will be stripped from the resulting XHTML, although the inner text will be left intact.

The script was originally created for use with a Rich Text Editor for a CMS, and purposefully puts very firm limits on what can be included in the resulting XHTML. Since it is based on the HTML5 parsing specification it is very robust when it comes to cleaning up tag soup.

License

Copyright © 2014 Charlie Stigler with Zaption and released under the MIT license.

Based on javascript-html-purifier, which is copyright © 2008 Mathias Biilmann Christensen / Domestika INTERNET S.L., released under the MIT license (see MIT-LICENSE)

Includes John Resig's and Erik Arvidsson's HTML Parser, which is used as a tokenizer.

HTML Parser By John Resig (ejohn.org) Original code by Erik Arvidsson, Mozilla Public License http://erik.eae.net/simplehtmlparser/simplehtmlparser.js