[poppler] pdftohtml sometimes produces invalid xml

[Børre Gaup]

Tirsdag 10.  mars 2015 00.45.49 skrev Albert Astals Cid:
> El Dilluns, 9 de març de 2015, a les 20:36:12, Børre Gaup va escriure:
> > Hi!
> 
> Hi
> 
> > pdftohtml -xml sometimes produces invalid xml, resulting in lines like
> > this:
> > 
> > <text top="218" left="142" width="532" height="16" font="1"><i>lea
> > <b>sadji
> > </b></i>(korreláhta),<b> <i>gosa mannat </b>/ Minulla on <b>paikka</b>
> > </i>(korreláhta)<b>, <i>jonne </i></b></text>
> > 
> > In our collection of 1078 pdfs, pdftohtml produces 11 documents with this
> > 'opening and ending tag mismatch' error.
> > 
> > I did some changes in utils/HtmlOutputDev.cc that make those 11 documents
> > wellformed and do not break the wellformedness of the other documents.
> > 
> > The changes I did is found here:
> > https://github.com/albbas/poppler/compare/fix_xml_wellformedness
> > 
> > I also made a diff (8174 lines) which shows what kind of changes this
> > version makes on our 1078 pdf documents compared to pdftothml 0.30.0. 
> > That
> > diff is found here:
> > https://github.com/albbas/poppler/blob/fix_xml_wellformedness/all-pdf.diff
> > 
> > Would you be interested in incorporating these changes into the main
> > branch?
> Can you please link to a pdf with such error (if you don't have an internet
> link i'd suggest opening a bug in bugs.freedesktop.org and attaching both
> the patch and the file there).
> 

Here are a couple of links:
http://www.samediggi.se/31961
http://www.samisk.no/attachments/129_Tjaalege_%20J%C3%AFengesne%20h%C3%A5agkodh.pdf