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  1. Nutch
  2. NUTCH-2611

Add line-breaks when parsing HTML block-level elements

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Implemented
    • 1.14
    • 1.15
    • parser
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    Description

      Currently, the HTML and Tika parser only add newlines following text-nodes that contain only whitespaces (e.g </span> <span>), but not based on what the tags are, so for example a </div><div> will not add a new line.

      While some applications do not differentiate between a space and a new line, many others see the semantic difference (two following words in the same sentence are "near", but in separate sentences they are not).

      I believe adding newlines after block-level HTML elements, while not a panacea, will be an improvement on the current behavior.

      NUTCH-2318 is related to this.

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              yossi Yossi Tamari
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