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.

Solution

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 ... />

Comments

[Drazen Bjelovuk]

I ended up going with JTidy to convert to xhtml, and it works pretty well.

[mkl]

You can also use <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> as proposed by Chris in his answer.

[mkl]

This actually has already been proposed in the accepted answer...