diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 98283cbd8..0c48d6f1c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,13 @@ Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 ## [Unreleased]
 Changelog up to date
 
+## [v0.1.6](https://github.com/CDRH/datura/compare/v0.1.5...v0.1.6) - 2020-02-11 - WEBS HTML Object
+
+### Changed
+- FileType elasticsearch transform now has swappable component when reading
+XML-type files. Webscraping script altered to manipulate HTML instead of
+XML object type
+
 ## [v0.1.5](https://github.com/CDRH/datura/compare/v0.1.4...v0.1.5) - 2020-02-03 - VRA to Solr
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/lib/datura/common_xml.rb b/lib/datura/common_xml.rb
index 02a931508..d4cc8351d 100644
--- a/lib/datura/common_xml.rb
+++ b/lib/datura/common_xml.rb
@@ -32,11 +32,17 @@ def self.convert_tags_in_string(text)
     return converted.xpath("//xml").inner_html
   end
 
+  def self.create_html_object(filepath, remove_ns=true)
+    file_html = File.open(filepath) { |f| Nokogiri::HTML(f, &:noblanks) }
+    file_html.remove_namespaces! if remove_ns
+    file_html
+  end
+
   def self.create_xml_object(filepath, remove_ns=true)
     file_xml = File.open(filepath) { |f| Nokogiri::XML(f, &:noblanks) }
     # TODO is this a good idea?
     file_xml.remove_namespaces! if remove_ns
-    return file_xml
+    file_xml
   end
 
   # pass in a date and identify whether it should be before or after
diff --git a/lib/datura/file_type.rb b/lib/datura/file_type.rb
index 38ca0806e..6077dd8f2 100644
--- a/lib/datura/file_type.rb
+++ b/lib/datura/file_type.rb
@@ -42,6 +42,13 @@ def filename(ext=true)
     end
   end
 
+  # typically assumed to be an XML file, parsed as XML
+  # but in some cases (for example, web scraping) this needs
+  # to be overridden to parse HTML instead
+  def parse_markup_lang_file
+    CommonXml.create_xml_object(self.file_location)
+  end
+
   def post_es(url=nil)
     url = url || "#{@options["es_path"]}/#{@options["es_index"]}"
     begin
@@ -108,7 +115,7 @@ def print_solr
   def transform_es
     es_req = []
     begin
-      file_xml = CommonXml.create_xml_object(self.file_location)
+      file_xml = parse_markup_lang_file
       # check if any xpaths hit before continuing
       results = file_xml.xpath(*subdoc_xpaths.keys)
       if results.length == 0
diff --git a/lib/datura/file_types/file_webs.rb b/lib/datura/file_types/file_webs.rb
index 5fd6c7525..62c8dc5d9 100644
--- a/lib/datura/file_types/file_webs.rb
+++ b/lib/datura/file_types/file_webs.rb
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ def initialize(file_location, options)
     super(file_location, options)
   end
 
+  def parse_markup_lang_file
+    CommonXml.create_html_object(self.file_location)
+  end
+
   def subdoc_xpaths
     { "/" => WebsToEs }
   end
diff --git a/lib/datura/version.rb b/lib/datura/version.rb
index 681321e18..4f5a79e19 100644
--- a/lib/datura/version.rb
+++ b/lib/datura/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module Datura
-  VERSION = "0.1.5"
+  VERSION = "0.1.6"
 end