Scala и парсинг HTML

Попробуйте использовать scala .xml.parsing.XhtmlParser вместо.

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package tagsoup 

import org.xml.sax.InputSource 
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser 
import org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup.jaxp.SAXFactoryImpl 
import scala.xml.parsing.FactoryAdapter 
import scala.xml._ 

class TagSoupFactoryAdapter extends FactoryAdapter { 

  val parserFactory = new SAXFactoryImpl 
  parserFactory.setNamespaceAware(false) 

  val emptyElements = Set("area", "base", "br", "col", "hr", "img", 
                      "input", "link", "meta", "param") 

  /** Tests if an XML element contains text. 
   * @return true if element named <code>localName</code> contains text. 
   */ 
  def nodeContainsText(localName: String) = !(emptyElements contains localName) 

  /** creates a node. 
  */ 
  def createNode(pre:String, label: String, attrs: MetaData, 
             scpe: NamespaceBinding, children: List[Node] ): Elem = { 
    Elem( pre, label, attrs, scpe, children:_* ); 
  } 

  /** creates a text node 
  */ 
  def createText( text:String ) = 
    Text( text ); 

  /** Ignore Processing Instructions 
  */ 
  def createProcInstr(target: String, data: String) = Nil 

  /** load XML document 
   * @param source 
   * @return a new XML document object 
   */ 
  override def loadXML(source: InputSource) = { 
    val parser: SAXParser = parserFactory.newSAXParser() 

    scopeStack.push(TopScope) 
    parser.parse(source, this) 
    scopeStack.pop 
    rootElem 
  } 

}

How-to-use-TagSoup-with-Scala-XML