diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f3fb1104..f6b8fddc 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -172,11 +172,6 @@
 			<artifactId>jsoup</artifactId>
 			<version>1.7.2</version>
 		</dependency>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>net.sourceforge.htmlcleaner</groupId>
-			<artifactId>htmlcleaner</artifactId>
-			<version>2.4</version>
-		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/feeds/FeedParser.java b/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/feeds/FeedParser.java
index d183a26a..1b70680f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/feeds/FeedParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/feeds/FeedParser.java
@@ -8,10 +8,6 @@ import javax.ejb.Stateless;
 
 import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.lang.SystemUtils;
-import org.htmlcleaner.CleanerProperties;
-import org.htmlcleaner.HtmlCleaner;
-import org.htmlcleaner.SimpleHtmlSerializer;
-import org.htmlcleaner.TagNode;
 import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
 
 import com.commafeed.backend.model.Feed;
@@ -50,6 +46,7 @@ public class FeedParser {
 				feed.getEntries().add(entry);
 			}
 		} catch (Exception e) {
+			e.printStackTrace();
 			throw new FeedException(String.format(
 					"Could not parse feed from %s : %s", feedUrl,
 					e.getMessage()), e);
@@ -76,15 +73,8 @@ public class FeedParser {
 	}
 
 	private String balanceTags(String xml) throws Exception {
-		HtmlCleaner cleaner = new HtmlCleaner();
-		CleanerProperties props = cleaner.getProperties();
-		props.setOmitXmlDeclaration(true);
-		TagNode node = cleaner.clean(xml);
-		SimpleHtmlSerializer serializer = new SimpleHtmlSerializer(
-				cleaner.getProperties());
-		String result = serializer.getAsString(node);
-		result = StringUtils.trim(xml);
-		return result;
+		// TODO close tags
+		return xml;
 	}
 
 	private String handleContent(String content) {