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Posted to dev@tika.apache.org by Ken Krugler <kk...@transpac.com> on 2011/08/20 03:21:07 UTC

Normalizing meta tag names

I've run into a number of web pages that use <meta name="Description" ...> or <meta name="Keywords" ...>.

These should be "description" and "keywords".

But the case difference means that we don't find these entries in the metadata.

It seems wrong to blindly lower-case all names.

I seem to remember some code from Chris that tried to fix up invalid names like this.

Any input on at least catching incorrect casing for common HTML meta tags?

Thanks,

-- Ken

PS - note that Metadata has MSOffice.Keywords which is "Keywords", not "keywords" - but no definition for the lowercase version that's found in most web pages, from what I see.

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