[TIKA-2601] Invalid XHTML output (overlapping a and formatting tags) for some WORD documents

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.17
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0, 1.21
• Component/s: parser

Environment

Linked is a sample document with its corresponding output.

• Assignee: Konstantin Gribov
• Reporter: Filip
• Created: 07/Mar/18 18:14
• Updated: 12/Apr/21 12:59
• Resolved: 23/Apr/19 13:45

Description

In some WORD (.doc, .docx) documents the XHTML elements are not closed properly. This usually happens when there are link elements (<a>) as well as italic or bold elements (<b><i>).

 

Fix should be done in https://github.com/apache/tika/blob/master/tika-parsers/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/parser/microsoft/WordExtractor.java

Issue Links

• is related to: TIKA-2555 Text with [underline] + [another format] in word document generates overlapping html tags.
• relates to: TIKA-2347 Underlined text is not decorated as such when extracting from word documents