XML closing tags missing throws exception with SAX Parser

Hey,
I'm trying to create an XML Document from some HTML.
I am getting this exception:
[Fatal Error] :1:334: The element type "input" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</input>".
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The element type "input" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</input>".
     at server.XMLUtils.createDocument(XMLUtils.java:76)The xml is like this:
<html>
<input name="s" size="5">
</html>Is there some setting I can change in the parser to make it ignore missing closing tags?
Here is my current code
     public static Document createDocument(InputStream is) {
          try {
               Document doc;
               DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
               DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
               doc = db.parse(is);
               doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();
               is.close();
               return doc;
          } catch (Exception e) {
               throw new RuntimeException(e);
     }Thanks

Nether wrote:
Hey,
The xml is like this:
<html>
<input name="s" size="5">
</html>
That is not XML. It might qualify as HTML. An XML file would be
<html>
<input name="s" size="5"/>
</html>Winston

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