Empty title element makes Tika-generated HTML documents not open ----------------------------------------------------------------
Key: TIKA-895 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-895 Project: Tika Issue Type: Bug Components: metadata Affects Versions: 1.1 Environment: Windows 7 Reporter: Benoit MAGGI Priority: Trivial I try to transform an empty docx to an html file. Ex : java -jar tika-app-1.1.jar -x example.docx > t.html The html file can't be open with Firefox,Internet Explorer and Chrome. The main point is that <title/> seems to be forbiden by html specification (can't get the point on html5) bq. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.4.2 bq. 7.4.2 The TITLE element bq. <!-- The TITLE element is not considered part of the flow of text. bq. It should be displayed, for example as the page header or bq. window title. Exactly one title is required per document. bq. --> bq. <!ELEMENT TITLE <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-TITLE> - - (#PCDATA) -(%head.misc; bq. <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/dtd.html#head.misc> ) -- document title --> bq. <!ATTLIST TITLE %i18n <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/dtd.html#i18n> > bq. *Start tag: required, End tag: required* For information there was the same bug with xls https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-725 The simple solution should be to provide an empty title by default -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira