Please find below POC for html to pdf conversion and exception coming from code.
Below html generated from excel 2003. iText API required all the attribute inside tags in quote but in generated html quote is missing in attributes
Test HTML
String:
<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta name=ProgId content=Excel.Sheet>
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Excel 11">
<link rel=File-List href="TEST_files/filelist.xml">
<link rel=Edit-Time-Data href="TEST_files/editdata.mso">
<link rel=OLE-Object-Data href="TEST_files/oledata.mso">
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:DocumentProperties>
<o:Author>osnpo271</o:Author>
<o:LastAuthor>osnpo271</o:LastAuthor>
<o:Created>2013-07-17T04:22:53Z</o:Created>
<o:LastSaved>2013-07-17T05:04:04Z</o:LastSaved>
<o:Company>tata-aig</o:Company>
<o:Version>11.5606</o:Version>
</o:DocumentProperties>
</xml><![endif]-->
<style>
<!--table
{mso-displayed-decimal-separator:"\.";
mso-displayed-thousand-separator:"\,";}
@page
{margin:1.0in .75in 1.0in .75in;
mso-header-margin:.5in;
mso-footer-margin:.5in;}
tr
{mso-height-source:auto;}
col
{mso-width-source:auto;}
br
{mso-data-placement:same-cell;}
.style0
{mso-number-format:General;
text-align:general;
vertical-align:bottom;
white-space:nowrap;
mso-rotate:0;
mso-background-source:auto;
mso-pattern:auto;
color:windowtext;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-weight:400;
font-style:normal;
text-decoration:none;
font-family:Arial;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-charset:0;
border:none;
mso-protection:locked visible;
mso-style-name:Normal;
mso-style-id:0;}
td
{mso-style-parent:style0;
padding-top:1px;
padding-right:1px;
padding-left:1px;
mso-ignore:padding;
color:windowtext;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-weight:400;
font-style:normal;
text-decoration:none;
font-family:Arial;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-number-format:General;
text-align:general;
vertical-align:bottom;
border:none;
mso-background-source:auto;
mso-pattern:auto;
mso-protection:locked visible;
white-space:nowrap;
mso-rotate:0;}
.xl24
{mso-style-parent:style0;
border:.5pt solid windowtext;}
-->
</style>
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<x:ExcelWorkbook>
<x:ExcelWorksheets>
<x:ExcelWorksheet>
<x:Name>Sheet1</x:Name>
<x:WorksheetOptions>
<x:Print>
<x:ValidPrinterInfo/>
<x:HorizontalResolution>600</x:HorizontalResolution>
<x:VerticalResolution>600</x:VerticalResolution>
</x:Print>
<x:ShowPageBreakZoom/>
<x:Selected/>
<x:Panes>
<x:Pane>
<x:Number>3</x:Number>
<x:ActiveRow>12</x:ActiveRow>
<x:ActiveCol>1</x:ActiveCol>
</x:Pane>
</x:Panes>
<x:ProtectContents>False</x:ProtectContents>
<x:ProtectObjects>False</x:ProtectObjects>
<x:ProtectScenarios>False</x:ProtectScenarios>
</x:WorksheetOptions>
</x:ExcelWorksheet>
<x:ExcelWorksheet>
<x:Name>Sheet2</x:Name>
<x:WorksheetOptions>
<x:ProtectContents>False</x:ProtectContents>
<x:ProtectObjects>False</x:ProtectObjects>
<x:ProtectScenarios>False</x:ProtectScenarios>
</x:WorksheetOptions>
</x:ExcelWorksheet>
<x:ExcelWorksheet>
<x:Name>Sheet3</x:Name>
<x:WorksheetOptions>
<x:ProtectContents>False</x:ProtectContents>
<x:ProtectObjects>False</x:ProtectObjects>
<x:ProtectScenarios>False</x:ProtectScenarios>
</x:WorksheetOptions>
</x:ExcelWorksheet>
</x:ExcelWorksheets>
<x:WindowHeight>8700</x:WindowHeight>
<x:WindowWidth>10395</x:WindowWidth>
<x:WindowTopX>120</x:WindowTopX>
<x:WindowTopY>60</x:WindowTopY>
<x:ProtectStructure>False</x:ProtectStructure>
<x:ProtectWindows>False</x:ProtectWindows>
</x:ExcelWorkbook>
</xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body link=blue vlink=purple>
<table x:str border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=192 style='border-collapse:
collapse;table-layout:fixed;width:144pt'>
<col width=64 span=3 style='width:48pt'>
<tr height=17 style='height:12.75pt'>
<td height=17 class=xl24 width=64 style='height:12.75pt;width:48pt'>TEST1</td>
<td class=xl24 width=64 style='border-left:none;width:48pt'>TEST2</td>
<td width=64 style='width:48pt'></td>
</tr>
<tr height=17 style='height:12.75pt'>
<td height=17 class=xl24 style='height:12.75pt;border-top:none'> </td>
<td class=xl24 style='border-top:none;border-left:none'> </td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height=17 style='height:12.75pt'>
<td height=17 class=xl24 style='height:12.75pt;border-top:none'> </td>
<td class=xl24 style='border-top:none;border-left:none'> </td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height=17 style='height:12.75pt'>
<td height=17 class=xl24 style='height:12.75pt;border-top:none'> </td>
<td class=xl24 style='border-top:none;border-left:none'> </td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height=17 style='height:12.75pt'>
<td height=17 colspan=3 style='height:12.75pt;mso-ignore:colspan'></td>
</tr>
<tr height=17 style='height:12.75pt'>
<td height=17 colspan=3 style='height:12.75pt;mso-ignore:colspan'></td>
</tr>
<tr height=17 style='height:12.75pt'>
<td height=17 colspan=3 style='height:12.75pt;mso-ignore:colspan'></td>
</tr>
<tr height=17 style='height:12.75pt'>
<td height=17 colspan=3 style='height:12.75pt;mso-ignore:colspan'></td>
</tr>
<tr height=17 style='height:12.75pt'>
<td height=17 colspan=3 style='height:12.75pt;mso-ignore:colspan'></td>
</tr>
<tr height=17 style='height:12.75pt'>
<td height=17 colspan=3 style='height:12.75pt;mso-ignore:colspan'></td>
</tr>
<tr height=17 style='height:12.75pt'>
<td height=17 colspan=3 style='height:12.75pt;mso-ignore:colspan'></td>
</tr>
<tr height=17 style='height:12.75pt'>
<td height=17 colspan=3 style='height:12.75pt;mso-ignore:colspan'></td>
</tr>
<tr height=17 style='height:12.75pt'>
<td height=17 colspan=3 style='height:12.75pt;mso-ignore:colspan'></td>
</tr>
<tr height=17 style='height:12.75pt'>
<td height=17 colspan=3 style='height:12.75pt;mso-ignore:colspan'></td>
</tr>
<tr height=17 style='height:12.75pt'>
<td height=17 colspan=3 style='height:12.75pt;mso-ignore:colspan'></td>
</tr>
<![if supportMisalignedColumns]>
<tr height=0 style='display:none'>
<td width=64 style='width:48pt'></td>
<td width=64 style='width:48pt'></td>
<td width=64 style='width:48pt'></td>
</tr>
<![endif]>
</table>
</body>
</html>
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Java Code to conver html to pdf
Using : below Java API
iText-2.0.8.jar
core-renderer-minimal.jar
java version 1.6
strPDF = StrBuf.toString();
OutputStream outStrmPdf = null;
try {
outStrmPdf = new FileOutputStream(outputPdfPath);
ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
renderer.setDocumentFromString(strPDF);
renderer.layout();
renderer.createPDF(outStrmPdf);
outStrmPdf.close();
}
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
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Exception from code
FATAL ERROR: 'org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Open quote is expected for attribute "http-equiv" associated with an element type "meta".'
:Open quote is expected for attribute "http-equiv" associated with an element type "meta".
