Minor Description
[Note: spinoff from the tika-dev thread "Issue in text extraction in
Solr / Tika" on Aug 19 2011, by nirnaydewan]
When parsing a Word doc where some contiguous text is bolded, due to
differences in how the user had bolded different parts of the text
with Word, TikaCLI -x or -h will sometimes generate output like this:
<p>F<b>oob</b>a<b>r</b> </p>
and other times like this (extra newline & 2 adjacent bold sections):
<p>F<b>oo</b> <b>b</b>a<b>r</b> </p>
The extra newline in the second example causes browsers (I tried
Firefox, Safari, Chrome), JTidy and Tika itself to (incorrectly)
insert a space when rending/extracting text, breaking up the word.
While this might be technically correct/OK (ie, XML white space rules
might allow for non-significant space after the </b> within a <p>
should be ignored), I think we should still fix Tika to not insert
newlines, if we can.