[poppler] XML syntax error in PdfToText tool

Thu Nov 14 23:26:12 PST 2013

I'm trying to fix this issue by an insertion of myXmlTokenReplace()
into printInfoString().

Regards,
mpsuzuki

On 11/14/2013 10:42 PM, Paweł Leń wrote:
> This is the contents of file output.xml generated by command pdftotext -bbox -htmlmeta 'myfile.pdf' 'output.xml' :
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <head>
> <title>Microsoft Word - Preface&Contents_Advances_in_Lasers_and_Electro_Optics.doc</title>
> <meta name="Author" content="Teodora"/>
> <meta name="Creator" content="PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2"/>
> <meta name="Producer" content="Acrobat Distiller 8.0.0 (Windows)"/>
> <meta name="CreationDate" content=""/>
> </head>
> <body>
> <doc>
>    <page width="482.000000" height="680.000000">
>      <word xMin="255.120000" yMin="190.576860" xMax="338.055540" yMax="207.269700">Advances</word>
>      <word xMin="344.000562" yMin="190.576860" xMax="359.331702" yMax="207.269700">in</word>
>      <word xMin="365.276724" yMin="190.576860" xMax="425.239584" yMax="207.269700">Lasers</word>
>      <word xMin="256.260624" yMin="207.256884" xMax="288.954240" yMax="223.949724">and</word>
>      <word xMin="294.884844" yMin="207.256884" xMax="363.168492" yMax="223.949724">Electro</word>
>      <word xMin="369.099096" yMin="207.256884" xMax="425.265216" yMax="223.949724">Optics</word>
>    </page>
> </doc>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
> As You can see in line 3 tag <title> contains invalid character squence with "&".  The title is extracted from myfile.pdf. CDATA or some kind of htmlspecialchars is needed.
>
>
>
>
> *--
> *
>
> *Paweł Leń*
>
>
>
> 2013/11/14 suzuki toshiya <mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp <mailto:mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp>>
>
>     Hi,
>
>     If you could post a sample XML file that you modified the
>     output of pdftotext to fit the XML parser, it would be
>     helpful for some kind people to develop a patch.
>
>     Regards,
>     mpsuzuki
>
>
>     On 11/14/2013 10:04 PM, Paweł Leń wrote:
>
>         Hello,
>
>         I have error when running:
>         pdftotext -bbox -htmlmeta 'myfile.pdf' 'tempFile.xml'
>
>         The output xml have <title> tag on the begining of document (meta section), error appears when title contains "&" character. Title field has no CDATA and it is not quoted so it causes error in my xmllib parser. Can I (or You :) ) fix it somehow?
>
>         Beast regards
>
>         *--
>         *
>
>         *Paweł Leń*
>
>
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