RuntimeWorkerException: Invalid nested tag head found, expected closing tag meta

Question

I'm using iText in order to convert html into a pdf, but I keep getting a RuntimeWorkerException thrown at parseXHtml. Here's my code:

Document tempDoc = new Document();
PdfWriter pdfWriter = PdfWriter.getInstance(tempDoc, out);
tempDoc.open();
XMLWorkerHelper.getInstance().parseXHtml(pdfWriter, tempDoc, new ByteArrayInputStream(html.getBytes()));
tempDoc.close();

I'm not too familiar with the differences between HTML and XHTML, so I'm at a bit of a loss as to how I should handle this. Here's the html source if it helps.

This sounds like an iText issue... Either because of not handling new html tags, or just a bug. Unfortuntely, there's probably no way around it, though maybe report it to the folks who manage iText? — ControlAltDel, Aug 25 '14 at 17:42
The error message is pretty clear, you have a `` tag in the header that isn't closed which is valid in `HTML` but not `XHTML` which is what you are parsing it as. You need to close those, `` — Chris Haas, Aug 25 '14 at 17:55

score 19 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 25 '14 at 19:36

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The error message is pretty clear, you have a <meta> tag in the header that isn't closed which is valid in HTML but not XHTML which is what you are parsing it as. You need to close those, <meta ... />

answered Aug 25 '14 at 19:36

Chris Haas

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I ended up going with JTidy to convert to xhtml, and it works pretty well. – Drazen Bjelovuk Aug 25 '14 at 20:04

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 27 '19 at 09:55

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Remember to close all meta tags

<meta ... />

answered Sep 27 '19 at 09:55

Flavio Troia

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This actually has already been proposed in the [accepted answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/25493133/1729265)... – mkl Sep 27 '19 at 10:46

saktiprasad swain · Answer 3 · 2017-06-16T06:26:25.150

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If you are using XMLWorkerHelper make sure you end image, breakpoint tag properly like />.

edited Jun 16 '17 at 06:26

answered Jun 14 '17 at 12:58

saktiprasad swain

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 02 '18 at 20:21

For a similar error message -

invalid nested tag body found, expected closing tag meta

turned out the XHTML I was parsing had a <script> section at the bottom, that contained JS code, something like:

<script>
  function my_func(var) {
    ...
  }     
</script>

After removing that code (with simple string manipulations), I was able to get the .parseXHtml to work without issues.

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Sep 20 '19 at 13:08

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you have to close each and every tag. example- in HTML

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

is valid.

But in xhtml you have to use

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></meta>

So close each and every tag in html (example meta tag, col tag, img tag etc).

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mkl

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answered Sep 20 '19 at 12:27

shivraj kumar

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You can also use `` as proposed by Chris in his answer. – mkl Sep 20 '19 at 13:42

RuntimeWorkerException: Invalid nested tag head found, expected closing tag meta

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