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 <[email protected]> > 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* >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> poppler mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler >> >> >
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