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HTML to PDF / DOCX / RTF Java converter library › Forums › PD4ML v3 Archived Forums (Read Only) › HTML/CSS rendering issues › <td><</td> generated as <</td> in the pdf

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  • Rajvinder
      August 25, 2011 at 10:31
      #26598

      Hi,
      when i try to generate a pdf using the below html code , is also displayed in the pdf.

      <html><br /> <head><br /> <title>recall</title><br /> </head><br /> <body><br /> <form action="userLogin"><br /> <table><br /> <tr><br /> <td>Hello<</td><br /> </tr><br /> </table><br /> </form><br /> </body><br /> <html>

      output in pdf:
      Hello<

      Thanks,
      Rajvinder

      PD4ML
        August 25, 2011 at 11:06
        #28635

        Do you find it is wrong? There is an HTML syntax error, so PD4ML does not interpret < as a tag.

        Rajvinder
          August 25, 2011 at 11:13
          #28636

          My point is it should be uniform with browser display. I have used both IE and mozilla to test it. and both are displaying it as :-
          Hello<

          PD4ML
            August 25, 2011 at 12:01
            #28637

            I see your point. But I guess the HTML specification does not define what supposed to happen in the situations like that. It only explicitly requires that ‘<' content character should be defined as '<' Of course there is a common practice how to workaround invalid syntax, but you can imagine it is not realistic to predict all possible coding errors and to test them in the popular browsers. We opened a ticket for the issue, however it will take not less than one month to fix: even minor changes in JavaCC parser grammar definition cause big differences in autogenerated Java classes. That means big additional efforts to port the changes to .NET platform. As a workaround I would recommend to pre-process source HTML before it is passed to PD4ML: to substitute all occurrences of '<<' with '< <'

            Rajvinder
              August 25, 2011 at 12:04
              #28638

              Thanks for the reply.

              Thanks,
              Rajvinder

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