XML was designed from the beginning to be intolerant
of errors. This XML 'precision decision' adversely
affects MS Word's corruption recovery. If there is one
error in the document.xml subfile where all the docx
text is stored within the DOCX, MS Word will stop with
an error. This is frustrating in a data recovery
situation where partial recovery is better than
nothing.

Savvy Word Recovery attempts to do precise surgery on
corrupt Word documents of the 'Unspecified'
and '...end tag of the element must match the element
type in the start tag' error types to reorder or
excise bad XML tags.

For other types of errors it uses the command line app
xmllint first to attempt to repair corrupt XML
subfiles particularly the document.xml one.

If this doesn't work a third attempt is made where the
XML subfiles are truncated at the first XML error, and

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