i call a web service that returns some HTML which enclosed in an XML envelop... something like:

<xml version="1.0" cache="false">
    <text color="white">
        <p> Some text <br /> <p>
    </text>
</xml>

I use XmlPullParser to parse this XML/HTML. To get the text in element, i do the following:

case XmlPullParser.START_TAG:

    xmlNodeName = parser.getName();

    if (xmlNodeName.equalsIgnoreCase("text")) {
        String color = parser.getAttributeValue(null, "color");
        String text = parser.nextText();

        if (color.equalsIgnoreCase("white")) {

            detail.setDetail(Html.fromHtml(text).toString());

        }
    }
break;

This works well and gets the text or html in element even if it contains some html tags.

Issue arises when the element's data starts with <p> tag as in above example. in this case the data is lost and text is empty.

How can i resolve this?

EDIT

Thanks to Nik & rajesh for pointing out that my service's response is actually not a valid XML & element not closed properly. But i have no control over the service so i cannot edit whats returned. I wonder if there is something like HTML Agility that can parse any type of malformed HTML or can at least get whats in html tags .. like inside <text> ... </text> in my case?? That would also be good.

OR anything else that i can use to parse what i get from the service will be good as long as its decently implementable.

Excuse me for my bad english

Solution

Isnpired by Martin's approach of converting the received data first to string, i managed my problem in a kind of mixed approach.

Convert the received InputStream's value to string and replaced the erroneous tag with "" (or whatever you wish) : as follows

InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(serviceReturnedStream);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
StringBuilder xmlAsString = new StringBuilder(512);
String line;
try {
    while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
        xmlAsString.append(line.replace("<p>", "").replace("</p>", ""));
    }
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Now i have a string which contains correct XML data (for my case), so just use the normal XmlPullParser to parse it instead of manually parsing it myself:

XmlPullParserFactory factory = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance();
factory.setNamespaceAware(false);
XmlPullParser parser = factory.newPullParser();
parser.setInput(new StringReader(xmlAsString.toString()));

Hope this helps someone!