diff --git a/src/core/file_format.rs b/src/core/file_format.rs
index dc1915a43..35d407555 100644
--- a/src/core/file_format.rs
+++ b/src/core/file_format.rs
@@ -249,6 +249,9 @@ pub enum FileFormat {
     /// Plain text format (.txt)
     TXT,
 
+    /// HTML / XHTML document (.htm, .html, .xhtml)
+    HTML,
+
     /// Windows shortcut (.lnk)
     LNK,
 
@@ -378,6 +381,7 @@ impl FileFormat {
             FileFormat::ICS => "iCalendar",
             FileFormat::EML => "EML",
             FileFormat::TXT => "TXT",
+            FileFormat::HTML => "HTML",
             FileFormat::LNK => "Windows Shortcut",
             FileFormat::SQLite => "SQLite",
             FileFormat::Prefetch => "Windows Prefetch",
@@ -478,6 +482,7 @@ impl FileFormat {
             FileFormat::ICS => &["ics", "ical"],
             FileFormat::EML => &["eml", "email"],
             FileFormat::TXT => &["txt", "text"],
+            FileFormat::HTML => &["htm", "html", "xhtml"],
             FileFormat::LNK => &["lnk"],
             FileFormat::SQLite => &["db", "sqlite", "sqlite3"],
             FileFormat::Prefetch => &["pf"],
diff --git a/src/core/format_dispatch.rs b/src/core/format_dispatch.rs
index 0805400f2..b677b7d89 100644
--- a/src/core/format_dispatch.rs
+++ b/src/core/format_dispatch.rs
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ use crate::parsers::specialized::sqlite::parse_sqlite_metadata;
 use crate::parsers::specialized::stl::parse_stl_metadata;
 use crate::parsers::specialized::x509::parse_x509_metadata;
 use crate::parsers::text::eps::parse_eps_metadata;
+use crate::parsers::text::html::parse_html_metadata;
 use crate::parsers::text::txt::parse_txt_metadata;
 use crate::parsers::text::vcf::parse_vcf_metadata;
 use crate::parsers::video::asf::parse_asf_metadata;
@@ -170,6 +171,7 @@ pub fn dispatch_format_parser(reader: &dyn FileReader, format: FileFormat) -> Re
         FileFormat::HDF5 => convert_string_error(parse_hdf5_metadata(reader), "HDF5"),
         FileFormat::VCF => convert_string_error(parse_vcf_metadata(reader), "VCF"),
         FileFormat::TXT => convert_string_error(parse_txt_metadata(reader), "TXT"),
+        FileFormat::HTML => convert_string_error(parse_html_metadata(reader), "HTML"),
         FileFormat::LNK => convert_string_error(parse_lnk_metadata(reader), "LNK"),
         FileFormat::SQLite => convert_string_error(parse_sqlite_metadata(reader), "SQLite"),
         FileFormat::ICS => convert_string_error(parse_ics_metadata(reader), "ICS"),
diff --git a/src/parsers/detection/mod.rs b/src/parsers/detection/mod.rs
index b5946145e..e2d31902f 100644
--- a/src/parsers/detection/mod.rs
+++ b/src/parsers/detection/mod.rs
@@ -266,6 +266,18 @@ pub fn detect_format(reader: &dyn FileReader) -> io::Result<FileFormat> {
         return Ok(FileFormat::Plist);
     }
 
+    // HTML and XHTML, using ExifTool's own gate from `HTML.pm`'s ProcessHTML.
+    // It runs after the SVG and plist roots because those three share the
+    // `<?xml` opening: ExifTool requires an actual HTML element in the first
+    // 256 bytes before it will accept an XML declaration as HTML, which is
+    // what keeps SVG, XMP sidecars and XML plists out. Before this existed
+    // every .html file fell through to the plain-text fallback and was parsed
+    // as TXT, reporting five TEXT:* statistics ExifTool never reports and none
+    // of the 57 HTML/Dublin-Core/Office tags it does.
+    if crate::parsers::text::html::looks_like_html(magic_bytes) {
+        return Ok(FileFormat::HTML);
+    }
+
     // Text-based formats need a wider bounded probe for long ICS bodies and EML header blocks.
     let text_probe_len = reader
         .size()
diff --git a/src/parsers/font/ttf.rs b/src/parsers/font/ttf.rs
index e48b185d0..6240cec98 100644
--- a/src/parsers/font/ttf.rs
+++ b/src/parsers/font/ttf.rs
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ impl TTFParser {
     }
 
     /// Decodes a string using the Macintosh Roman encoding.
-    fn decode_mac_roman(data: &[u8]) -> String {
+    pub(crate) fn decode_mac_roman(data: &[u8]) -> String {
         const MAC_ROMAN_HIGH: [char; 128] = [
             'Ä', 'Å', 'Ç', 'É', 'Ñ', 'Ö', 'Ü', 'á', 'à', 'â', 'ä', 'ã', 'å', 'ç', 'é', 'è', 'ê',
             'ë', 'í', 'ì', 'î', 'ï', 'ñ', 'ó', 'ò', 'ô', 'ö', 'õ', 'ú', 'ù', 'û', 'ü', '†', '°',
diff --git a/src/parsers/text/html.rs b/src/parsers/text/html.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..eae9e084d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/parsers/text/html.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,1610 @@
+//! HTML / XHTML `<head>` meta information parser.
+//!
+//! A transcription of ExifTool's `HTML.pm` (`ProcessHTML`, ExifTool 13.55).
+//! Everything ExifTool reports for an HTML file comes out of the document
+//! head: `META` elements, the `TITLE` element, and the MS-Office `XML` island
+//! that Word and Excel write inside a `<!--[if gte mso 9]>` conditional
+//! comment.
+//!
+//! # Four family-1 groups from one file
+//!
+//! A meta name carries its own namespace (`dc:creator`, `ncc:totalTime`,
+//! `o:Author`), and ExifTool routes each namespace to a different tag table
+//! with a different family-1 group. So a single file yields `HTML:*`,
+//! `HTML-dc:*`, `HTML-ncc:*`, `HTML-prod:*`, `HTML-vw96:*`, `HTML-office:*`
+//! and `HTTP-equiv:*` tags side by side. The tables below are transcribed
+//! from `HTML.pm`'s `%Image::ExifTool::HTML::{Main,dc,ncc,prod,vw96,equiv,Office}`.
+//!
+//! # Character set
+//!
+//! Values are decoded using the charset declared by
+//! `<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="...charset=X">`, and only that:
+//! ExifTool maps exactly four charset names and ignores every other one,
+//! leaving those values as raw bytes. Because the charset is discovered while
+//! walking the head, tags that appear *before* the content-type element are
+//! not decoded -- HTML.pm says so explicitly, and this reproduces it rather
+//! than "fixing" it.
+
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+
+use crate::core::{FileFormat, FileReader, FormatParser, MetadataMap, TagValue};
+use crate::error::Result;
+
+/// How many bytes ExifTool validates the header against, and the window it
+/// determines the input record separator from (`ProcessHTML`).
+const HEADER_PROBE: usize = 256;
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Tag tables (transcribed from HTML.pm)
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// The conversion a tag carries in `HTML.pm`.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
+enum Conv {
+    /// No `ValueConv`/`PrintConv`, or one that is the identity with default
+    /// options (`$self->ConvertDateTime($val)` returns `$val` unchanged
+    /// unless `-d` was given, which OxiDex does not implement here).
+    None,
+    /// `ValueConv => 'Image::ExifTool::XMP::ConvertXMPDate($val)'`.
+    XmpDate,
+    /// `PrintConv => 'ConvertTimeSpan($val, 60)'`.
+    TimeSpanMinutes,
+    /// `RawConv => \&SetHTMLCharset` -- records the document charset and
+    /// returns the value untouched.
+    SetCharset,
+}
+
+struct TagDef {
+    /// ExifTool's tag ID, i.e. the table key. Meta names are looked up
+    /// lowercased; the Office table is keyed by the XML element name as
+    /// written, so its keys are capitalised.
+    key: &'static str,
+    /// ExifTool's tag name.
+    name: &'static str,
+    /// Whether repeated occurrences accumulate into a list.
+    list: bool,
+    conv: Conv,
+}
+
+const fn tag(key: &'static str, name: &'static str) -> TagDef {
+    TagDef {
+        key,
+        name,
+        list: false,
+        conv: Conv::None,
+    }
+}
+
+const fn list_tag(key: &'static str, name: &'static str) -> TagDef {
+    TagDef {
+        key,
+        name,
+        list: true,
+        conv: Conv::None,
+    }
+}
+
+const fn conv_tag(key: &'static str, name: &'static str, conv: Conv) -> TagDef {
+    TagDef {
+        key,
+        name,
+        list: false,
+        conv,
+    }
+}
+
+/// `%Image::ExifTool::HTML::Main` -- the leaf tags only. The `dc`, `ncc`,
+/// `prod`, `vw96`, `http-equiv` and `o` entries are `SubDirectory` pointers
+/// and are resolved by [`sub_table`].
+static MAIN: &[TagDef] = &[
+    tag("abstract", "Abstract"),
+    tag("author", "Author"),
+    tag("classification", "Classification"),
+    tag("content-language", "ContentLanguage"),
+    tag("copyright", "Copyright"),
+    tag("description", "Description"),
+    tag("distribution", "Distribution"),
+    tag("doc-class", "DocClass"),
+    tag("doc-rights", "DocRights"),
+    tag("doc-type", "DocType"),
+    tag("formatter", "Formatter"),
+    tag("generator", "Generator"),
+    tag("generatorversion", "GeneratorVersion"),
+    tag("googlebot", "GoogleBot"),
+    list_tag("keywords", "Keywords"),
+    tag("mssmarttagspreventparsing", "NoMSSmartTags"),
+    tag("originator", "Originator"),
+    tag("owner", "Owner"),
+    tag("progid", "ProgID"),
+    tag("rating", "Rating"),
+    tag("refresh", "Refresh"),
+    tag("resource-type", "ResourceType"),
+    tag("revisit-after", "RevisitAfter"),
+    list_tag("robots", "Robots"),
+    tag("title", "Title"),
+];
+
+/// `%Image::ExifTool::HTML::dc` -- Dublin Core.
+static DC: &[TagDef] = &[
+    list_tag("contributor", "Contributor"),
+    tag("coverage", "Coverage"),
+    list_tag("creator", "Creator"),
+    list_tag("date", "Date"),
+    tag("description", "Description"),
+    tag("format", "Format"),
+    tag("identifier", "Identifier"),
+    list_tag("language", "Language"),
+    list_tag("publisher", "Publisher"),
+    list_tag("relation", "Relation"),
+    tag("rights", "Rights"),
+    tag("source", "Source"),
+    list_tag("subject", "Subject"),
+    tag("title", "Title"),
+    list_tag("type", "Type"),
+];
+
+/// `%Image::ExifTool::HTML::ncc` -- Daisy 2.02 navigation control centre.
+static NCC: &[TagDef] = &[
+    tag("charset", "CharacterSet"),
+    tag("depth", "Depth"),
+    tag("files", "Files"),
+    tag("footnotes", "Footnotes"),
+    tag("generator", "Generator"),
+    tag("kbytesize", "KByteSize"),
+    tag("maxpagenormal", "MaxPageNormal"),
+    tag("multimediatype", "MultimediaType"),
+    tag("narrator", "Narrator"),
+    tag("pagefront", "PageFront"),
+    tag("pagenormal", "PageNormal"),
+    tag("pagespecial", "PageSpecial"),
+    tag("prodnotes", "ProdNotes"),
+    tag("produceddate", "ProducedDate"),
+    tag("producer", "Producer"),
+    tag("revision", "Revision"),
+    tag("revisiondate", "RevisionDate"),
+    tag("setinfo", "SetInfo"),
+    tag("sidebars", "Sidebars"),
+    tag("sourcedate", "SourceDate"),
+    tag("sourceedition", "SourceEdition"),
+    tag("sourcepublisher", "SourcePublisher"),
+    tag("sourcerights", "SourceRights"),
+    tag("sourcetitle", "SourceTitle"),
+    tag("tocitems", "TOCItems"),
+    tag("totaltime", "Duration"),
+];
+
+/// `%Image::ExifTool::HTML::prod`.
+static PROD: &[TagDef] = &[
+    tag("recengineer", "RecEngineer"),
+    tag("reclocation", "RecLocation"),
+];
+
+/// `%Image::ExifTool::HTML::vw96`.
+static VW96: &[TagDef] = &[tag("objecttype", "ObjectType")];
+
+/// `%Image::ExifTool::HTML::equiv` -- `HTTP-equiv` meta elements.
+static EQUIV: &[TagDef] = &[
+    tag("cache-control", "CacheControl"),
+    tag("content-disposition", "ContentDisposition"),
+    tag("content-language", "ContentLanguage"),
+    tag("content-script-type", "ContentScriptType"),
+    tag("content-style-type", "ContentStyleType"),
+    conv_tag("content-type", "ContentType", Conv::SetCharset),
+    tag("default-style", "DefaultStyle"),
+    tag("expires", "Expires"),
+    tag("ext-cache", "ExtCache"),
+    tag("imagetoolbar", "ImageToolbar"),
+    tag("lotus", "Lotus"),
+    tag("page-enter", "PageEnter"),
+    tag("page-exit", "PageExit"),
+    tag("pics-label", "PicsLabel"),
+    tag("pragma", "Pragma"),
+    tag("refresh", "Refresh"),
+    tag("reply-to", "ReplyTo"),
+    tag("set-cookie", "SetCookie"),
+    tag("site-enter", "SiteEnter"),
+    tag("site-exit", "SiteExit"),
+    tag("vary", "Vary"),
+    tag("window-target", "WindowTarget"),
+];
+
+/// `%Image::ExifTool::HTML::Office` -- the MS-Office XML island. Keyed by the
+/// element name as written, so these keys are matched case-sensitively.
+static OFFICE: &[TagDef] = &[
+    tag("Author", "Author"),
+    tag("Category", "Category"),
+    tag("Characters", "Characters"),
+    tag("CharactersWithSpaces", "CharactersWithSpaces"),
+    tag("Company", "Company"),
+    conv_tag("Created", "CreateDate", Conv::XmpDate),
+    tag("Description", "Description"),
+    tag("Keywords", "Keywords"),
+    tag("LastAuthor", "LastAuthor"),
+    conv_tag("LastPrinted", "LastPrinted", Conv::XmpDate),
+    conv_tag("LastSaved", "ModifyDate", Conv::XmpDate),
+    tag("Lines", "Lines"),
+    tag("Manager", "Manager"),
+    tag("Pages", "Pages"),
+    tag("Paragraphs", "Paragraphs"),
+    tag("Revision", "RevisionNumber"),
+    tag("Subject", "Subject"),
+    tag("Template", "Template"),
+    conv_tag("TotalTime", "TotalEditTime", Conv::TimeSpanMinutes),
+    tag("Version", "RevisionNumber"),
+    tag("Words", "Words"),
+];
+
+/// The `SubDirectory` entries of the Main table: namespace to
+/// (family-1 group, tag table).
+fn sub_table(group: &str) -> Option<(&'static str, &'static [TagDef])> {
+    match group {
+        "dc" => Some(("HTML-dc", DC)),
+        "ncc" => Some(("HTML-ncc", NCC)),
+        "prod" => Some(("HTML-prod", PROD)),
+        "vw96" => Some(("HTML-vw96", VW96)),
+        "http-equiv" => Some(("HTTP-equiv", EQUIV)),
+        "o" => Some(("HTML-office", OFFICE)),
+        _ => None,
+    }
+}
+
+fn lookup<'a>(table: &'a [TagDef], key: &str) -> Option<&'a TagDef> {
+    table.iter().find(|t| t.key == key)
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Character entities (transcribed from HTML.pm's %entityNum)
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// HTML 4 character entity references, sorted by name for binary search.
+/// Transcribed verbatim from `%entityNum` in `HTML.pm` (253 entries).
+#[rustfmt::skip]
+static ENTITY_NUM: &[(&str, u32)] = &[
+    ("AElig", 198), ("Aacute", 193), ("Acirc", 194), ("Agrave", 192),
+    ("Alpha", 913), ("Aring", 197), ("Atilde", 195), ("Auml", 196),
+    ("Beta", 914), ("Ccedil", 199), ("Chi", 935), ("Dagger", 8225),
+    ("Delta", 916), ("ETH", 208), ("Eacute", 201), ("Ecirc", 202),
+    ("Egrave", 200), ("Epsilon", 917), ("Eta", 919), ("Euml", 203),
+    ("Gamma", 915), ("Iacute", 205), ("Icirc", 206), ("Igrave", 204),
+    ("Iota", 921), ("Iuml", 207), ("Kappa", 922), ("Lambda", 923),
+    ("Mu", 924), ("Ntilde", 209), ("Nu", 925), ("OElig", 338),
+    ("Oacute", 211), ("Ocirc", 212), ("Ograve", 210), ("Omega", 937),
+    ("Omicron", 927), ("Oslash", 216), ("Otilde", 213), ("Ouml", 214),
+    ("Phi", 934), ("Pi", 928), ("Prime", 8243), ("Psi", 936),
+    ("Rho", 929), ("Scaron", 352), ("Sigma", 931), ("THORN", 222),
+    ("Tau", 932), ("Theta", 920), ("Uacute", 218), ("Ucirc", 219),
+    ("Ugrave", 217), ("Upsilon", 933), ("Uuml", 220), ("Xi", 926),
+    ("Yacute", 221), ("Yuml", 376), ("Zeta", 918), ("aacute", 225),
+    ("acirc", 226), ("acute", 180), ("aelig", 230), ("agrave", 224),
+    ("alefsym", 8501), ("alpha", 945), ("amp", 38), ("and", 8743),
+    ("ang", 8736), ("apos", 39), ("aring", 229), ("asymp", 8776),
+    ("atilde", 227), ("auml", 228), ("bdquo", 8222), ("beta", 946),
+    ("brvbar", 166), ("bull", 8226), ("cap", 8745), ("ccedil", 231),
+    ("cedil", 184), ("cent", 162), ("chi", 967), ("circ", 710),
+    ("clubs", 9827), ("cong", 8773), ("copy", 169), ("crarr", 8629),
+    ("cup", 8746), ("curren", 164), ("dArr", 8659), ("dagger", 8224),
+    ("darr", 8595), ("deg", 176), ("delta", 948), ("diams", 9830),
+    ("divide", 247), ("eacute", 233), ("ecirc", 234), ("egrave", 232),
+    ("empty", 8709), ("emsp", 8195), ("ensp", 8194), ("epsilon", 949),
+    ("equiv", 8801), ("eta", 951), ("eth", 240), ("euml", 235),
+    ("euro", 8364), ("exist", 8707), ("fnof", 402), ("forall", 8704),
+    ("frac12", 189), ("frac14", 188), ("frac34", 190), ("frasl", 8260),
+    ("gamma", 947), ("ge", 8805), ("gt", 62), ("hArr", 8660),
+    ("harr", 8596), ("hearts", 9829), ("hellip", 8230), ("iacute", 237),
+    ("icirc", 238), ("iexcl", 161), ("igrave", 236), ("image", 8465),
+    ("infin", 8734), ("int", 8747), ("iota", 953), ("iquest", 191),
+    ("isin", 8712), ("iuml", 239), ("kappa", 954), ("lArr", 8656),
+    ("lambda", 955), ("lang", 9001), ("laquo", 171), ("larr", 8592),
+    ("lceil", 8968), ("ldquo", 8220), ("le", 8804), ("lfloor", 8970),
+    ("lowast", 8727), ("loz", 9674), ("lrm", 8206), ("lsaquo", 8249),
+    ("lsquo", 8216), ("lt", 60), ("macr", 175), ("mdash", 8212),
+    ("micro", 181), ("middot", 183), ("minus", 8722), ("mu", 956),
+    ("nabla", 8711), ("nbsp", 160), ("ndash", 8211), ("ne", 8800),
+    ("ni", 8715), ("not", 172), ("notin", 8713), ("nsub", 8836),
+    ("ntilde", 241), ("nu", 957), ("oacute", 243), ("ocirc", 244),
+    ("oelig", 339), ("ograve", 242), ("oline", 8254), ("omega", 969),
+    ("omicron", 959), ("oplus", 8853), ("or", 8744), ("ordf", 170),
+    ("ordm", 186), ("oslash", 248), ("otilde", 245), ("otimes", 8855),
+    ("ouml", 246), ("para", 182), ("part", 8706), ("permil", 8240),
+    ("perp", 8869), ("phi", 966), ("pi", 960), ("piv", 982),
+    ("plusmn", 177), ("pound", 163), ("prime", 8242), ("prod", 8719),
+    ("prop", 8733), ("psi", 968), ("quot", 34), ("rArr", 8658),
+    ("radic", 8730), ("rang", 9002), ("raquo", 187), ("rarr", 8594),
+    ("rceil", 8969), ("rdquo", 8221), ("real", 8476), ("reg", 174),
+    ("rfloor", 8971), ("rho", 961), ("rlm", 8207), ("rsaquo", 8250),
+    ("rsquo", 8217), ("sbquo", 8218), ("scaron", 353), ("sdot", 8901),
+    ("sect", 167), ("shy", 173), ("sigma", 963), ("sigmaf", 962),
+    ("sim", 8764), ("spades", 9824), ("sub", 8834), ("sube", 8838),
+    ("sum", 8721), ("sup", 8835), ("sup1", 185), ("sup2", 178),
+    ("sup3", 179), ("supe", 8839), ("szlig", 223), ("tau", 964),
+    ("there4", 8756), ("theta", 952), ("thetasym", 977), ("thinsp", 8201),
+    ("thorn", 254), ("tilde", 732), ("times", 215), ("trade", 8482),
+    ("uArr", 8657), ("uacute", 250), ("uarr", 8593), ("ucirc", 251),
+    ("ugrave", 249), ("uml", 168), ("upsih", 978), ("upsilon", 965),
+    ("uuml", 252), ("weierp", 8472), ("xi", 958), ("yacute", 253),
+    ("yen", 165), ("yuml", 255), ("zeta", 950), ("zwj", 8205),
+    ("zwnj", 8204),
+];
+
+/// `%Image::ExifTool::XMP::charNum` -- the entity set `UnescapeXML` uses when
+/// no lookup table is supplied, which is the case on the XML-island path.
+static XML_CHAR_NUM: &[(&str, u32)] = &[
+    ("amp", 38),
+    ("apos", 39),
+    ("gt", 62),
+    ("lt", 60),
+    ("quot", 34),
+];
+
+fn entity_value(table: &[(&str, u32)], name: &str) -> Option<u32> {
+    table
+        .binary_search_by_key(&name, |(n, _)| n)
+        .ok()
+        .map(|i| table[i].1)
+}
+
+/// `Image::ExifTool::XMP::UnescapeXML`, with the entity table supplied by the
+/// caller. Unknown entities are left as written, exactly as `UnescapeChar`
+/// does when the name is not in the table and is not a numeric reference.
+fn unescape(text: &str, table: &[(&str, u32)]) -> String {
+    if !text.contains('&') {
+        return text.to_string();
+    }
+    let bytes = text.as_bytes();
+    let mut out = String::with_capacity(text.len());
+    let mut i = 0;
+    while i < bytes.len() {
+        if bytes[i] != b'&' {
+            let start = i;
+            while i < bytes.len() && bytes[i] != b'&' {
+                i += 1;
+            }
+            out.push_str(&text[start..i]);
+            continue;
+        }
+        // /&(#?\w+);/
+        let mut j = i + 1;
+        if j < bytes.len() && bytes[j] == b'#' {
+            j += 1;
+        }
+        let name_start = j;
+        while j < bytes.len() && (bytes[j].is_ascii_alphanumeric() || bytes[j] == b'_') {
+            j += 1;
+        }
+        if j == name_start || j >= bytes.len() || bytes[j] != b';' {
+            out.push('&');
+            i += 1;
+            continue;
+        }
+        let reference = &text[i + 1..j];
+        let code = entity_value(table, reference).or_else(|| {
+            let digits = reference.strip_prefix('#')?;
+            if let Some(hex) = digits
+                .strip_prefix('x')
+                .or_else(|| digits.strip_prefix('X'))
+            {
+                u32::from_str_radix(hex, 16).ok()
+            } else {
+                digits.parse::<u32>().ok()
+            }
+        });
+        match code.and_then(char::from_u32) {
+            Some(character) => {
+                out.push(character);
+                i = j + 1;
+            }
+            None => {
+                out.push('&');
+                i += 1;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    out
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Character sets
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// The charsets `%htmlCharset` in HTML.pm maps to. Any other declared charset
+/// leaves `HTMLCharset` unset, and ExifTool then does not recode at all.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
+enum Charset {
+    /// ExifTool's `Latin`, i.e. cp1252 (`Charset/Latin.pm`).
+    Latin,
+    Utf8,
+    /// `Charset/MacRoman.pm`.
+    MacRoman,
+}
+
+/// `%Image::ExifTool::Charset::Latin` -- cp1252. Only 0x80..=0x9F differ from
+/// Unicode; the table omits 1-byte characters equal to their code point.
+#[rustfmt::skip]
+const LATIN_HIGH: [u32; 32] = [
+    0x20ac, 0x0081, 0x201a, 0x0192, 0x201e, 0x2026, 0x2020, 0x2021,
+    0x02c6, 0x2030, 0x0160, 0x2039, 0x0152, 0x008d, 0x017d, 0x008f,
+    0x0090, 0x2018, 0x2019, 0x201c, 0x201d, 0x2022, 0x2013, 0x2014,
+    0x02dc, 0x2122, 0x0161, 0x203a, 0x0153, 0x009d, 0x017e, 0x0178,
+];
+
+fn decode_latin(data: &[u8]) -> String {
+    data.iter()
+        .map(|&byte| {
+            let code = if (0x80..0xA0).contains(&byte) {
+                LATIN_HIGH[(byte - 0x80) as usize]
+            } else {
+                u32::from(byte)
+            };
+            char::from_u32(code).unwrap_or(char::REPLACEMENT_CHARACTER)
+        })
+        .collect()
+}
+
+/// `$et->Decode($val, $$et{HTMLCharset})`.
+///
+/// With no charset declared -- or one ExifTool does not map -- the bytes are
+/// passed through untouched, which is what ExifTool does.
+fn decode(data: &[u8], charset: Option<Charset>) -> String {
+    match charset {
+        Some(Charset::Latin) => decode_latin(data),
+        Some(Charset::MacRoman) => crate::parsers::font::ttf::TTFParser::decode_mac_roman(data),
+        Some(Charset::Utf8) | None => match std::str::from_utf8(data) {
+            Ok(text) => text.to_string(),
+            Err(_) => String::from_utf8_lossy(data).into_owned(),
+        },
+    }
+}
+
+/// `SetHTMLCharset` -- `$$et{HTMLCharset} = $htmlCharset{lc $1} if $val =~
+/// /charset=['"]?([-\w]+)/`.
+fn charset_from_content_type(value: &str) -> Option<Option<Charset>> {
+    let bytes = value.as_bytes();
+    let position = value.find("charset=")?;
+    let mut i = position + "charset=".len();
+    if i < bytes.len() && (bytes[i] == b'\'' || bytes[i] == b'"') {
+        i += 1;
+    }
+    let start = i;
+    while i < bytes.len() && (bytes[i].is_ascii_alphanumeric() || matches!(bytes[i], b'_' | b'-')) {
+        i += 1;
+    }
+    if i == start {
+        return None;
+    }
+    let name = value[start..i].to_ascii_lowercase();
+    Some(match name.as_str() {
+        "macintosh" => Some(Charset::MacRoman),
+        "iso-8859-1" | "windows-1252" => Some(Charset::Latin),
+        "utf-8" => Some(Charset::Utf8),
+        // An unmapped charset assigns undef, clearing any earlier setting.
+        _ => None,
+    })
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Conversions
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// `Image::ExifTool::IsFloat`.
+fn is_float(text: &str) -> bool {
+    let bytes = text.as_bytes();
+    let mut i = 0;
+    if i < bytes.len() && matches!(bytes[i], b'+' | b'-') {
+        i += 1;
+    }
+    // (?=\d|\.\d)
+    let has_lookahead = match bytes.get(i) {
+        Some(b) if b.is_ascii_digit() => true,
+        Some(b'.') => bytes.get(i + 1).is_some_and(u8::is_ascii_digit),
+        _ => false,
+    };
+    if !has_lookahead {
+        return false;
+    }
+    while i < bytes.len() && bytes[i].is_ascii_digit() {
+        i += 1;
+    }
+    if bytes.get(i) == Some(&b'.') {
+        i += 1;
+        while i < bytes.len() && bytes[i].is_ascii_digit() {
+            i += 1;
+        }
+    }
+    if matches!(bytes.get(i), Some(b'E') | Some(b'e')) {
+        i += 1;
+        if matches!(bytes.get(i), Some(b'+') | Some(b'-')) {
+            i += 1;
+        }
+        let digits = i;
+        while i < bytes.len() && bytes[i].is_ascii_digit() {
+            i += 1;
+        }
+        if i == digits {
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+    i == bytes.len()
+}
+
+/// `Image::ExifTool::ConvertTimeSpan($val, 60)`.
+///
+/// Returns `None` when the seconds branch would need Perl's `%.15g` number
+/// stringification for a non-integral value. Printing an approximation of
+/// ExifTool's string under ExifTool's tag name would be undetectable
+/// downstream, so the tag is dropped instead.
+fn convert_time_span_minutes(value: &str) -> Option<String> {
+    if !is_float(value) {
+        return Some(value.to_string());
+    }
+    let Ok(raw) = value.parse::<f64>() else {
+        return Some(value.to_string());
+    };
+    if raw == 0.0 {
+        return Some(value.to_string());
+    }
+    let seconds = raw * 60.0;
+    if seconds < 60.0 {
+        if seconds.fract() != 0.0 {
+            return None;
+        }
+        Some(format!("{} seconds", seconds as i64))
+    } else if seconds < 3600.0 {
+        // ($mult and $mult >= 60) selects '%d', and the plural is dropped for
+        // exactly one minute.
+        let plural = if seconds == 60.0 { "" } else { "s" };
+        Some(format!("{} minute{}", (seconds / 60.0) as i64, plural))
+    } else if seconds < 24.0 * 3600.0 {
+        Some(format!("{:.1} hours", seconds / 3600.0))
+    } else {
+        Some(format!("{:.1} days", seconds / (24.0 * 3600.0)))
+    }
+}
+
+/// `Image::ExifTool::XMP::ConvertXMPDate($val)`.
+fn convert_xmp_date(value: &str) -> String {
+    // /^(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})[T ](\d{2}:\d{2})(:\d{2})?\s*(\S*)$/
+    if let Some(converted) = xmp_date_full(value) {
+        return converted;
+    }
+    // elsif ($val =~ /^(\d{4})(-\d{2}){0,2}/) { $val =~ tr/-/:/ }
+    if xmp_date_prefix(value) {
+        return value.replace('-', ":");
+    }
+    value.to_string()
+}
+
+fn xmp_date_full(value: &str) -> Option<String> {
+    let bytes = value.as_bytes();
+    let digits = |range: std::ops::Range<usize>| {
+        bytes
+            .get(range.clone())
+            .is_some_and(|s| s.len() == range.len() && s.iter().all(u8::is_ascii_digit))
+    };
+    if !(digits(0..4) && bytes.get(4) == Some(&b'-') && digits(5..7) && bytes.get(7) == Some(&b'-'))
+    {
+        return None;
+    }
+    if !digits(8..10) || !matches!(bytes.get(10), Some(b'T') | Some(b' ')) {
+        return None;
+    }
+    if !digits(11..13) || bytes.get(13) != Some(&b':') || !digits(14..16) {
+        return None;
+    }
+    let mut i = 16;
+    let mut secs = "";
+    if bytes.get(i) == Some(&b':') && digits(i + 1..i + 3) {
+        secs = &value[i..i + 3];
+        i += 3;
+    }
+    // \s* then (\S*) to end of string: the remainder must hold no interior
+    // whitespace once the leading run is consumed.
+    let rest = value[i..].trim_start_matches(is_perl_space_char);
+    if rest.contains(is_perl_space_char) {
+        return None;
+    }
+    Some(format!(
+        "{}:{}:{} {}{}{}",
+        &value[0..4],
+        &value[5..7],
+        &value[8..10],
+        &value[11..16],
+        secs,
+        rest
+    ))
+}
+
+fn xmp_date_prefix(value: &str) -> bool {
+    let bytes = value.as_bytes();
+    if bytes.len() < 4 || !bytes[..4].iter().all(u8::is_ascii_digit) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    true
+}
+
+fn is_perl_space_char(character: char) -> bool {
+    matches!(character, ' ' | '\t' | '\n' | '\r' | '\u{0b}' | '\u{0c}')
+}
+
+fn is_perl_space(byte: u8) -> bool {
+    matches!(byte, b' ' | b'\t' | b'\n' | b'\r' | 0x0B | 0x0C)
+}
+
+fn is_word(byte: u8) -> bool {
+    byte.is_ascii_alphanumeric() || byte == b'_'
+}
+
+/// `[\w:.-]`, the character class HTML.pm uses for element and meta names.
+fn is_name_char(byte: u8) -> bool {
+    is_word(byte) || matches!(byte, b':' | b'.' | b'-')
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Header validation and the head section
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// `ProcessHTML`'s validation gate:
+///
+/// ```text
+///     $buff =~ /^(\xef\xbb\xbf)?\s*<(!DOCTYPE\s+HTML|HTML|\?xml)/i or return 0;
+///     $buff =~ /<(!DOCTYPE\s+)?HTML/i or return 0 if $2 eq '?xml';
+/// ```
+///
+/// An XML declaration alone is not enough -- that is what keeps SVG, XMP and
+/// plists out.
+#[must_use]
+pub fn looks_like_html(data: &[u8]) -> bool {
+    let head = &data[..data.len().min(HEADER_PROBE)];
+    let mut i = 0;
+    if head.starts_with(&[0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF]) {
+        i = 3;
+    }
+    while i < head.len() && is_perl_space(head[i]) {
+        i += 1;
+    }
+    if head.get(i) != Some(&b'<') {
+        return false;
+    }
+    i += 1;
+    let rest = &head[i..];
+    if starts_with_doctype_html(rest) || starts_with_ignore_case(rest, b"html") {
+        return true;
+    }
+    // Only the literal lowercase '?xml' takes the second branch: Perl compares
+    // the captured text with `eq`, so `<?XML` skips the extra requirement.
+    if rest.starts_with(b"?xml") {
+        return contains_html_element(head);
+    }
+    false
+}
+
+fn starts_with_ignore_case(data: &[u8], needle: &[u8]) -> bool {
+    data.len() >= needle.len() && data[..needle.len()].eq_ignore_ascii_case(needle)
+}
+
+/// `!DOCTYPE\s+HTML`
+fn starts_with_doctype_html(data: &[u8]) -> bool {
+    if !starts_with_ignore_case(data, b"!DOCTYPE") {
+        return false;
+    }
+    let mut i = "!DOCTYPE".len();
+    let start = i;
+    while i < data.len() && is_perl_space(data[i]) {
+        i += 1;
+    }
+    i > start && starts_with_ignore_case(&data[i..], b"html")
+}
+
+/// `/<(!DOCTYPE\s+)?HTML/i` anywhere in the probe.
+fn contains_html_element(head: &[u8]) -> bool {
+    head.iter().enumerate().any(|(i, &byte)| {
+        byte == b'<' && {
+            let rest = &head[i + 1..];
+            starts_with_ignore_case(rest, b"html") || starts_with_doctype_html(rest)
+        }
+    })
+}
+
+/// `Image::ExifTool::PostScript::GetInputRecordSeparator`.
+fn record_separator(head: &[u8]) -> Option<&'static [u8]> {
+    let probe = &head[..head.len().min(HEADER_PROBE)];
+    // Perl's pos() after a successful //g match is one past the character.
+    let lf = probe
+        .iter()
+        .position(|&b| b == 0x0A)
+        .map_or(999i64, |p| i64::try_from(p + 1).unwrap_or(i64::MAX));
+    let cr = probe
+        .iter()
+        .position(|&b| b == 0x0D)
+        .map_or(999i64, |p| i64::try_from(p + 1).unwrap_or(i64::MAX));
+    match lf - cr {
+        1 => Some(b"\x0d\x0a"),
+        -1 => Some(b"\x0a\x0d"),
+        d if d > 0 => Some(b"\x0d"),
+        d if d < 0 => Some(b"\x0a"),
+        _ => None,
+    }
+}
+
+/// The document head, as `ProcessHTML` assembles it: everything after the
+/// first `<head\b`, plus whole records up to and including the one holding
+/// `</head>`.
+fn head_section<'a>(data: &'a [u8], separator: &[u8]) -> Option<&'a [u8]> {
+    let mut start = None;
+    let mut position = 0;
+    while position < data.len() {
+        let end = find(data, separator, position).map_or(data.len(), |i| i + separator.len());
+        let line = &data[position..end];
+        match start {
+            None => {
+                // /<head\b/i -- \b after "head" means the next byte is not a
+                // word character.
+                if let Some(offset) = find_head_tag(line) {
+                    start = Some(position + offset);
+                }
+            }
+            Some(begin) => {
+                if find_ignore_case(line, b"</head>").is_some() {
+                    return Some(&data[begin..end]);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        position = end;
+    }
+    start.map(|begin| &data[begin..])
+}
+
+/// Offset just past a `<head` whose next byte is not a word character.
+fn find_head_tag(line: &[u8]) -> Option<usize> {
+    let mut from = 0;
+    while let Some(index) = find_ignore_case(&line[from..], b"<head") {
+        let at = from + index;
+        let after = at + b"<head".len();
+        if line.get(after).is_none_or(|&b| !is_word(b)) {
+            return Some(after);
+        }
+        from = at + 1;
+    }
+    None
+}
+
+fn find(haystack: &[u8], needle: &[u8], from: usize) -> Option<usize> {
+    if needle.is_empty() || from >= haystack.len() {
+        return None;
+    }
+    haystack[from..]
+        .windows(needle.len())
+        .position(|w| w == needle)
+        .map(|i| i + from)
+}
+
+fn find_ignore_case(haystack: &[u8], needle: &[u8]) -> Option<usize> {
+    if needle.len() > haystack.len() {
+        return None;
+    }
+    haystack
+        .windows(needle.len())
+        .position(|w| w.eq_ignore_ascii_case(needle))
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Attribute matching
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// `/\b<name>\s*=\s*['"]?([\w:.-]+)/si`
+fn attr_name_value<'a>(attrs: &'a [u8], name: &[u8]) -> Option<&'a [u8]> {
+    let mut from = 0;
+    while let Some(index) = find_ignore_case(&attrs[from..], name) {
+        let at = from + index;
+        from = at + 1;
+        // \b: the byte before the first character of `name` must not be a word
+        // character when that first character is one.
+        if is_word(name[0]) && at > 0 && is_word(attrs[at - 1]) {
+            continue;
+        }
+        let mut i = at + name.len();
+        while i < attrs.len() && is_perl_space(attrs[i]) {
+            i += 1;
+        }
+        if attrs.get(i) != Some(&b'=') {
+            continue;
+        }
+        i += 1;
+        while i < attrs.len() && is_perl_space(attrs[i]) {
+            i += 1;
+        }
+        if matches!(attrs.get(i), Some(b'\'') | Some(b'"')) {
+            i += 1;
+        }
+        let start = i;
+        while i < attrs.len() && is_name_char(attrs[i]) {
+            i += 1;
+        }
+        if i > start {
+            return Some(&attrs[start..i]);
+        }
+    }
+    None
+}
+
+/// The META `content` attribute:
+///
+/// ```text
+///     $attrs =~ /\bcontent\s*=\s*(['"])(.*?)\1/si or
+///     $attrs =~ /\bcontent\s*=\s*(['"]?)([\w:.-]+)/si
+/// ```
+fn attr_content<'a>(attrs: &'a [u8]) -> Option<&'a [u8]> {
+    let mut from = 0;
+    while let Some(index) = find_ignore_case(&attrs[from..], b"content") {
+        let at = from + index;
+        from = at + 1;
+        if at > 0 && is_word(attrs[at - 1]) {
+            continue;
+        }
+        let mut i = at + b"content".len();
+        while i < attrs.len() && is_perl_space(attrs[i]) {
+            i += 1;
+        }
+        if attrs.get(i) != Some(&b'=') {
+            continue;
+        }
+        i += 1;
+        while i < attrs.len() && is_perl_space(attrs[i]) {
+            i += 1;
+        }
+        if let Some(&quote) = attrs.get(i)
+            && (quote == b'\'' || quote == b'"')
+            && let Some(close) = attrs[i + 1..].iter().position(|&b| b == quote)
+        {
+            return Some(&attrs[i + 1..i + 1 + close]);
+        }
+        // Fall back to the unquoted form.
+        let mut j = i;
+        if matches!(attrs.get(j), Some(b'\'') | Some(b'"')) {
+            j += 1;
+        }
+        let start = j;
+        while j < attrs.len() && is_name_char(attrs[j]) {
+            j += 1;
+        }
+        if j > start {
+            return Some(&attrs[start..j]);
+        }
+    }
+    None
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Name derivation
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// `$name =~ s/\W+(\w)/\u$1/sg` -- the META path's name for an unknown tag.
+fn meta_tag_name(raw: &str) -> String {
+    let bytes = raw.as_bytes();
+    let mut out = String::with_capacity(raw.len());
+    let mut i = 0;
+    while i < bytes.len() {
+        if is_word(bytes[i]) {
+            out.push(bytes[i] as char);
+            i += 1;
+            continue;
+        }
+        let run = i;
+        while i < bytes.len() && !is_word(bytes[i]) {
+            i += 1;
+        }
+        match bytes.get(i) {
+            Some(&next) => {
+                out.push(next.to_ascii_uppercase() as char);
+                i += 1;
+            }
+            // A trailing non-word run has no following \w, so it is not
+            // matched and stays as written.
+            None => out.push_str(&raw[run..]),
+        }
+    }
+    out
+}
+
+/// The XML island's name for an unknown tag:
+///
+/// ```text
+///     my $name = ucfirst $tag;
+///     $name =~ s/_x([0-9a-f]{4})_/chr(hex($1))/gie;
+///     $name =~ s/\s(.)/\U$1/g;
+///     $name =~ tr/-_a-zA-Z0-9//dc;
+/// ```
+fn xml_tag_name(raw: &str) -> String {
+    let mut name = String::with_capacity(raw.len());
+    let mut characters = raw.chars();
+    if let Some(first) = characters.next() {
+        name.extend(first.to_uppercase());
+        name.push_str(characters.as_str());
+    }
+
+    // _xHHHH_ -> chr(0xHHHH)
+    let bytes = name.clone();
+    let mut expanded = String::with_capacity(bytes.len());
+    let raw_bytes = bytes.as_bytes();
+    let mut i = 0;
+    while i < raw_bytes.len() {
+        if raw_bytes[i] == b'_'
+            && i + 7 <= raw_bytes.len()
+            && (raw_bytes[i + 1] == b'x' || raw_bytes[i + 1] == b'X')
+            && raw_bytes[i + 2..i + 6].iter().all(u8::is_ascii_hexdigit)
+            && raw_bytes[i + 6] == b'_'
+            && let Ok(code) = u32::from_str_radix(&bytes[i + 2..i + 6], 16)
+            && let Some(character) = char::from_u32(code)
+        {
+            expanded.push(character);
+            i += 7;
+            continue;
+        }
+        let character = bytes[i..].chars().next().unwrap_or('\u{fffd}');
+        expanded.push(character);
+        i += character.len_utf8();
+    }
+
+    // s/\s(.)/\U$1/g -- '.' does not match a newline.
+    let mut collapsed = String::with_capacity(expanded.len());
+    let mut chars = expanded.chars().peekable();
+    while let Some(character) = chars.next() {
+        if is_perl_space_char(character) && character != '\n' {
+            match chars.peek().copied() {
+                Some(next) if next != '\n' => {
+                    chars.next();
+                    collapsed.extend(next.to_uppercase());
+                }
+                _ => collapsed.push(character),
+            }
+        } else {
+            collapsed.push(character);
+        }
+    }
+
+    // tr/-_a-zA-Z0-9//dc
+    collapsed
+        .chars()
+        .filter(|c| c.is_ascii_alphanumeric() || matches!(c, '-' | '_'))
+        .collect()
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// The walk
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+struct Collected {
+    values: HashMap<String, Vec<String>>,
+}
+
+impl Collected {
+    fn add(&mut self, key: String, value: String, list: bool) {
+        let entry = self.values.entry(key).or_default();
+        if !list {
+            entry.clear();
+        }
+        entry.push(value);
+    }
+
+    fn into_metadata(self) -> MetadataMap {
+        let mut metadata = MetadataMap::new();
+        for (key, mut values) in self.values {
+            let value = if values.len() == 1 {
+                TagValue::String(values.pop().unwrap_or_default())
+            } else {
+                TagValue::Array(values.into_iter().map(TagValue::String).collect())
+            };
+            metadata.insert(key, value);
+        }
+        metadata
+    }
+}
+
+struct Walker {
+    charset: Option<Charset>,
+    separator: Vec<u8>,
+    out: Collected,
+}
+
+impl Walker {
+    /// `$et->HandleTag($table, $tag, $val)` for a resolved tag.
+    fn handle(&mut self, group: &str, definition: &TagDef, value: &str) {
+        let converted = match definition.conv {
+            Conv::None => Some(value.to_string()),
+            Conv::XmpDate => Some(convert_xmp_date(value)),
+            Conv::TimeSpanMinutes => convert_time_span_minutes(value),
+            Conv::SetCharset => {
+                if let Some(charset) = charset_from_content_type(value) {
+                    self.charset = charset;
+                }
+                Some(value.to_string())
+            }
+        };
+        if let Some(converted) = converted {
+            self.out.add(
+                format!("{}:{}", group, definition.name),
+                converted,
+                definition.list,
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn handle_unknown(&mut self, group: &str, name: &str, value: &str) {
+        if name.is_empty() {
+            return;
+        }
+        self.out
+            .add(format!("{}:{}", group, name), value.to_string(), false);
+    }
+
+    /// The non-XML value pipeline: recode, collapse record separators, then
+    /// unescape HTML character references.
+    fn cook(&self, raw: &[u8]) -> String {
+        let decoded = decode(raw, self.charset);
+        let collapsed = collapse_separators(&decoded, &self.separator);
+        unescape(&collapsed, ENTITY_NUM)
+    }
+
+    fn walk(&mut self, doc: &[u8]) {
+        let mut position = 0;
+        while let Some(element) = next_element(doc, position) {
+            let Element {
+                name_range,
+                attrs_range,
+                end,
+            } = element;
+            let tag_name = &doc[name_range.clone()];
+            let attrs = &doc[attrs_range];
+            let lower = tag_name.to_ascii_lowercase();
+
+            let mut value: &[u8] = b"";
+            position = end;
+            if attrs.last() == Some(&b'/') {
+                // Self-contained XHTML element.
+            } else {
+                let close = {
+                    let mut c = Vec::with_capacity(tag_name.len() + 3);
+                    c.extend_from_slice(b"</");
+                    c.extend_from_slice(tag_name);
+                    c.push(b'>');
+                    c
+                };
+                match find(doc, &close, end) {
+                    Some(at) => {
+                        value = &doc[end..at];
+                        position = at + close.len();
+                    }
+                    None => {
+                        if lower != b"meta" {
+                            continue;
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            if lower == b"meta" {
+                self.handle_meta(attrs, value);
+            } else if lower == b"xml" {
+                self.handle_xml_island(value);
+            } else if lower == b"title" {
+                let cooked = self.cook(value);
+                match lookup(MAIN, "title") {
+                    Some(definition) => self.handle("HTML", definition, &cooked),
+                    None => self.handle_unknown("HTML", "Title", &cooked),
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn handle_meta(&mut self, attrs: &[u8], element_value: &[u8]) {
+        let raw_name = match attr_name_value(attrs, b"name") {
+            Some(name) => String::from_utf8_lossy(name).into_owned(),
+            None => match attr_name_value(attrs, b"http-equiv") {
+                Some(name) => format!("HTTP-equiv.{}", String::from_utf8_lossy(name)),
+                None => return,
+            },
+        };
+        if raw_name.is_empty() {
+            return;
+        }
+        let lower = raw_name.to_ascii_lowercase();
+
+        let raw_value: &[u8] = match attr_content(attrs) {
+            Some(content) => content,
+            None => {
+                if element_value.is_empty() {
+                    return;
+                }
+                element_value
+            }
+        };
+        let cooked = self.cook(raw_value);
+
+        // /^([\w-]+)[:.]([\w-]+)/ -- isolate the namespace.
+        let (group, key) = match split_namespace(&lower) {
+            Some((namespace, rest)) => match sub_table(namespace) {
+                Some((group, table)) => {
+                    if let Some(definition) = lookup(table, rest) {
+                        self.handle(group, definition, &cooked);
+                        return;
+                    }
+                    (group.to_string(), rest.to_string())
+                }
+                None => (
+                    format!("HTML-{}", namespace),
+                    format!("{}.{}", namespace, rest),
+                ),
+            },
+            None => ("HTML".to_string(), lower.clone()),
+        };
+        if group == "HTML"
+            && let Some(definition) = lookup(MAIN, &key)
+        {
+            self.handle("HTML", definition, &cooked);
+            return;
+        }
+        self.handle_unknown(&group, &meta_tag_name(&raw_name), &cooked);
+    }
+
+    /// The MS-Office XML island:
+    /// `/<([\w-]+):([\w-]+)(\s.*?)?>([^<]*?)<\/\1:\2>/g`
+    fn handle_xml_island(&mut self, xml: &[u8]) {
+        let mut position = 0;
+        while let Some(node) = next_xml_node(xml, position) {
+            position = node.end;
+            let namespace = String::from_utf8_lossy(&xml[node.namespace.clone()]).into_owned();
+            let key = String::from_utf8_lossy(&xml[node.key.clone()]).into_owned();
+            let Some((group, table)) = sub_table(&namespace) else {
+                continue;
+            };
+            let decoded = decode(&xml[node.value.clone()], self.charset);
+            let value = unescape(&decoded, XML_CHAR_NUM);
+            match lookup(table, &key) {
+                Some(definition) => self.handle(group, definition, &value),
+                None => self.handle_unknown(group, &xml_tag_name(&key), &value),
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// `$val =~ s{\s*$/\s*}{ }sg`
+fn collapse_separators(value: &str, separator: &[u8]) -> String {
+    let Ok(separator) = std::str::from_utf8(separator) else {
+        return value.to_string();
+    };
+    if !value.contains(separator) {
+        return value.to_string();
+    }
+    let mut out = String::with_capacity(value.len());
+    let mut rest = value;
+    while let Some(at) = rest.find(separator) {
+        let head = rest[..at].trim_end_matches(is_perl_space_char);
+        out.push_str(head);
+        out.push(' ');
+        rest = rest[at + separator.len()..].trim_start_matches(is_perl_space_char);
+    }
+    out.push_str(rest);
+    out
+}
+
+/// `/^([\w-]+)[:.]([\w-]+)/`
+fn split_namespace(tag: &str) -> Option<(&str, &str)> {
+    let bytes = tag.as_bytes();
+    let mut i = 0;
+    while i < bytes.len() && (is_word(bytes[i]) || bytes[i] == b'-') {
+        i += 1;
+    }
+    if i == 0 || !matches!(bytes.get(i), Some(b':') | Some(b'.')) {
+        return None;
+    }
+    let separator = i;
+    i += 1;
+    let start = i;
+    while i < bytes.len() && (is_word(bytes[i]) || bytes[i] == b'-') {
+        i += 1;
+    }
+    if i == start {
+        return None;
+    }
+    Some((&tag[..separator], &tag[start..i]))
+}
+
+struct Element {
+    name_range: std::ops::Range<usize>,
+    attrs_range: std::ops::Range<usize>,
+    /// Just past the closing `>`.
+    end: usize,
+}
+
+/// `m{<([\w:.-]+)(.*?)>}sg`
+fn next_element(doc: &[u8], from: usize) -> Option<Element> {
+    let mut i = from;
+    while i < doc.len() {
+        if doc[i] != b'<' {
+            i += 1;
+            continue;
+        }
+        let name_start = i + 1;
+        let mut name_end = name_start;
+        while name_end < doc.len() && is_name_char(doc[name_end]) {
+            name_end += 1;
+        }
+        if name_end == name_start {
+            i += 1;
+            continue;
+        }
+        let Some(offset) = doc[name_end..].iter().position(|&b| b == b'>') else {
+            return None;
+        };
+        let close = name_end + offset;
+        return Some(Element {
+            name_range: name_start..name_end,
+            attrs_range: name_end..close,
+            end: close + 1,
+        });
+    }
+    None
+}
+
+struct XmlNode {
+    namespace: std::ops::Range<usize>,
+    key: std::ops::Range<usize>,
+    value: std::ops::Range<usize>,
+    end: usize,
+}
+
+/// `/<([\w-]+):([\w-]+)(\s.*?)?>([^<]*?)<\/\1:\2>/g`
+fn next_xml_node(xml: &[u8], from: usize) -> Option<XmlNode> {
+    let mut i = from;
+    'outer: while i < xml.len() {
+        if xml[i] != b'<' {
+            i += 1;
+            continue;
+        }
+        let ns_start = i + 1;
+        let mut ns_end = ns_start;
+        while ns_end < xml.len() && (is_word(xml[ns_end]) || xml[ns_end] == b'-') {
+            ns_end += 1;
+        }
+        if ns_end == ns_start || xml.get(ns_end) != Some(&b':') {
+            i += 1;
+            continue;
+        }
+        let key_start = ns_end + 1;
+        let mut key_end = key_start;
+        while key_end < xml.len() && (is_word(xml[key_end]) || xml[key_end] == b'-') {
+            key_end += 1;
+        }
+        if key_end == key_start {
+            i += 1;
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        // (\s.*?)? -- the group must start with whitespace, and '.' does not
+        // match a newline, so the '>' has to arrive before the next one.
+        let content_start = match xml.get(key_end) {
+            Some(b'>') => key_end + 1,
+            Some(&byte) if is_perl_space(byte) => {
+                let mut j = key_end + 1;
+                loop {
+                    match xml.get(j) {
+                        Some(b'>') => break j + 1,
+                        Some(b'\n') | None => {
+                            i += 1;
+                            continue 'outer;
+                        }
+                        Some(_) => j += 1,
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            _ => {
+                i += 1;
+                continue;
+            }
+        };
+
+        // ([^<]*?)</ns:key>
+        let mut close = Vec::with_capacity(key_end - ns_start + 4);
+        close.extend_from_slice(b"</");
+        close.extend_from_slice(&xml[ns_start..key_end]);
+        close.push(b'>');
+        let Some(at) = find(xml, b"<", content_start) else {
+            i += 1;
+            continue;
+        };
+        if !xml[at..].starts_with(&close) {
+            i += 1;
+            continue;
+        }
+        return Some(XmlNode {
+            namespace: ns_start..ns_end,
+            key: key_start..key_end,
+            value: content_start..at,
+            end: at + close.len(),
+        });
+    }
+    None
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Parser entry points
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// Reads the `<head>` of an HTML or XHTML document.
+pub struct HTMLParser;
+
+impl HTMLParser {
+    /// Extract HTML meta information from a whole-file buffer.
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn parse_bytes(data: &[u8]) -> MetadataMap {
+        if !looks_like_html(data) {
+            return MetadataMap::new();
+        }
+        // ExifTool warns 'Invalid HTML data' and extracts nothing when it
+        // cannot determine the record separator.
+        let Some(separator) = record_separator(data) else {
+            return MetadataMap::new();
+        };
+        let Some(doc) = head_section(data, separator) else {
+            return MetadataMap::new();
+        };
+        let mut walker = Walker {
+            charset: None,
+            separator: separator.to_vec(),
+            out: Collected::default(),
+        };
+        walker.walk(doc);
+        walker.out.into_metadata()
+    }
+}
+
+impl FormatParser for HTMLParser {
+    fn parse(&self, reader: &dyn FileReader) -> Result<MetadataMap> {
+        let size = reader.size() as usize;
+        let data = reader.read(0, size)?;
+        Ok(Self::parse_bytes(data))
+    }
+
+    fn supports_format(&self, format: FileFormat) -> bool {
+        matches!(format, FileFormat::HTML)
+    }
+}
+
+/// Parses metadata from HTML/XHTML files.
+pub fn parse_html_metadata(reader: &dyn FileReader) -> std::result::Result<MetadataMap, String> {
+    HTMLParser.parse(reader).map_err(|e| e.to_string())
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    fn value(metadata: &MetadataMap, key: &str) -> Option<String> {
+        match metadata.get(key)? {
+            TagValue::String(s) => Some(s.clone()),
+            other => Some(format!("{:?}", other)),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn header_gate_rejects_xml_without_an_html_element() {
+        // The XML declaration alone must not claim the file -- this is what
+        // keeps SVG, XMP sidecars and XML plists off the HTML parser.
+        assert!(!looks_like_html(
+            b"<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<svg xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"/>"
+        ));
+        assert!(!looks_like_html(b"<?xpacket begin=\"\" id=\"W5M0Mp\"?>"));
+        assert!(!looks_like_html(
+            b"<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<plist version=\"1.0\"><dict/></plist>"
+        ));
+        assert!(looks_like_html(
+            b"<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0\">"
+        ));
+        assert!(looks_like_html(b"<html><head></head></html>"));
+        assert!(looks_like_html(b"\xef\xbb\xbf  <!DOCTYPE  HTML>"));
+        assert!(!looks_like_html(b"BEGIN:VCALENDAR\r\nVERSION:2.0\r\n"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn record_separator_matches_getinputrecordseparator() {
+        assert_eq!(record_separator(b"a\nb"), Some(&b"\x0a"[..]));
+        assert_eq!(record_separator(b"a\r\nb"), Some(&b"\x0d\x0a"[..]));
+        assert_eq!(record_separator(b"a\rb"), Some(&b"\x0d"[..]));
+        assert_eq!(record_separator(b"a\n\rb"), Some(&b"\x0a\x0d"[..]));
+        assert_eq!(record_separator(b"no line breaks"), None);
+    }
+
+    /// `ConvertTimeSpan($val, 60)` -- the plural is dropped at exactly one
+    /// minute, and the minutes branch prints `%d`, not `%.1f`.
+    #[test]
+    fn time_span_matches_exiftool() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            convert_time_span_minutes("1").as_deref(),
+            Some("1 minute"),
+            "o:TotalTime 1 is ExifTool's '1 minute'"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(convert_time_span_minutes("2").as_deref(), Some("2 minutes"));
+        assert_eq!(
+            convert_time_span_minutes("59").as_deref(),
+            Some("59 minutes")
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            convert_time_span_minutes("60").as_deref(),
+            Some("1.0 hours")
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            convert_time_span_minutes("90").as_deref(),
+            Some("1.5 hours")
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            convert_time_span_minutes("1440").as_deref(),
+            Some("1.0 days")
+        );
+        // Not a number: ExifTool returns the value untouched.
+        assert_eq!(convert_time_span_minutes("abc").as_deref(), Some("abc"));
+        assert_eq!(convert_time_span_minutes("0").as_deref(), Some("0"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn xmp_date_conversion_matches_exiftool() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            convert_xmp_date("2010-06-28T23:52:00Z"),
+            "2010:06:28 23:52:00Z"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(convert_xmp_date("2010-06-28T23:52Z"), "2010:06:28 23:52Z");
+        assert_eq!(convert_xmp_date("2010-06-28"), "2010:06:28");
+        // Not a date at all: unchanged.
+        assert_eq!(convert_xmp_date("Normal.dotm"), "Normal.dotm");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn entity_table_is_sorted_for_binary_search() {
+        assert_eq!(ENTITY_NUM.len(), 253);
+        assert!(ENTITY_NUM.windows(2).all(|w| w[0].0 < w[1].0));
+        assert!(XML_CHAR_NUM.windows(2).all(|w| w[0].0 < w[1].0));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn unescapes_named_and_numeric_references() {
+        assert_eq!(unescape("Greek: &alpha; &beta;", ENTITY_NUM), "Greek: α β");
+        assert_eq!(unescape("a&#13;b", XML_CHAR_NUM), "a\rb");
+        assert_eq!(unescape("&#x41;&#66;", ENTITY_NUM), "AB");
+        // An unknown entity is left exactly as written.
+        assert_eq!(
+            unescape("&notarealentity;", XML_CHAR_NUM),
+            "&notarealentity;"
+        );
+        // The XML table has only five names, so &alpha; is not one of them.
+        assert_eq!(unescape("&alpha;", XML_CHAR_NUM), "&alpha;");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn latin_decoding_is_cp1252() {
+        // ExifTool's 'Latin' is cp1252, not bare ISO 8859-1: 0x80 is the euro
+        // sign, which ISO 8859-1 leaves undefined.
+        assert_eq!(decode_latin(&[b'a', 0xE9]), "aé");
+        assert_eq!(decode_latin(&[0x80]), "\u{20ac}");
+        assert_eq!(decode_latin(&[0x92]), "\u{2019}");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn derives_office_names_the_way_exiftool_does() {
+        assert_eq!(xml_tag_name("Checked_x0020_by"), "CheckedBy");
+        assert_eq!(xml_tag_name("test1"), "Test1");
+        assert_eq!(xml_tag_name("my tag"), "MyTag");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn parses_the_four_namespaces_of_a_daisy_office_document() {
+        // Byte-level fixture: the charset is declared iso-8859-1 and the
+        // Category holds a raw 0xE9.
+        let mut doc: Vec<u8> = Vec::new();
+        doc.extend_from_slice(
+            b"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?>\n\
+              <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN\">\n\
+              <html><head>\n\
+              <title>ExifTool HTML Test</title>\n\
+              <meta http-equiv=\"Content-type\" content='text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"' />\n\
+              <meta name=\"dc:creator\" content=\"Phil Harvey\" />\n\
+              <meta name=\"dc:creator\" content=\"Another Creator\" />\n\
+              <meta name=\"dc:date\" content=\"2007-30-01\" scheme=\"yyyy-mm-dd\" />\n\
+              <meta name=\"dc:subject\" content=\"Greek: &alpha; &beta; &gamma;\" />\n\
+              <meta name=\"ncc:totalTime\" content=\"91:27:21\" scheme=\"hh:mm:ss\" />\n\
+              <meta name=\"prod:recEngineer\" content=\"P Harvey\" />\n\
+              <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n\
+              <o:DocumentProperties>\n\
+              <o:Category>a cat",
+        );
+        doc.push(0xE9);
+        doc.extend_from_slice(
+            b"gory</o:Category>\n\
+              <o:Description>a comments&#13;a new line</o:Description>\n\
+              <o:TotalTime>1</o:TotalTime>\n\
+              <o:Created>2010-06-28T23:52:00Z</o:Created>\n\
+              <o:Revision>2</o:Revision>\n\
+              <o:Version>12.0</o:Version>\n\
+              </o:DocumentProperties>\n\
+              <o:CustomDocumentProperties>\n\
+              <o:Checked_x0020_by dt:dt=\"string\">Phil</o:Checked_x0020_by>\n\
+              </o:CustomDocumentProperties>\n\
+              </xml><![endif]-->\n\
+              </head></html>\n",
+        );
+
+        let metadata = HTMLParser::parse_bytes(&doc);
+
+        // One file, five family-1 groups.
+        assert_eq!(
+            value(&metadata, "HTML:Title").as_deref(),
+            Some("ExifTool HTML Test")
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            value(&metadata, "HTTP-equiv:ContentType").as_deref(),
+            Some("text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"")
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            value(&metadata, "HTML-ncc:Duration").as_deref(),
+            Some("91:27:21")
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            value(&metadata, "HTML-prod:RecEngineer").as_deref(),
+            Some("P Harvey")
+        );
+
+        // dc:creator is a Seq, so two META elements collapse into one list.
+        assert_eq!(
+            metadata.get("HTML-dc:Creator"),
+            Some(&TagValue::Array(vec![
+                TagValue::String("Phil Harvey".into()),
+                TagValue::String("Another Creator".into()),
+            ]))
+        );
+        // dc:date carries only ConvertDateTime, which is the identity here --
+        // the malformed date is reported exactly as written.
+        assert_eq!(
+            value(&metadata, "HTML-dc:Date").as_deref(),
+            Some("2007-30-01")
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            value(&metadata, "HTML-dc:Subject").as_deref(),
+            Some("Greek: α β γ")
+        );
+
+        // The Office island: charset-decoded, XML-unescaped, converted.
+        assert_eq!(
+            value(&metadata, "HTML-office:Category").as_deref(),
+            Some("a catégory")
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            value(&metadata, "HTML-office:Description").as_deref(),
+            Some("a comments\ra new line")
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            value(&metadata, "HTML-office:TotalEditTime").as_deref(),
+            Some("1 minute")
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            value(&metadata, "HTML-office:CreateDate").as_deref(),
+            Some("2010:06:28 23:52:00Z")
+        );
+        // o:Revision and o:Version are both RevisionNumber and neither is a
+        // list, so the later element wins.
+        assert_eq!(
+            value(&metadata, "HTML-office:RevisionNumber").as_deref(),
+            Some("12.0")
+        );
+        // A custom property not in the table gets its name derived.
+        assert_eq!(
+            value(&metadata, "HTML-office:CheckedBy").as_deref(),
+            Some("Phil")
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_document_without_a_head_yields_nothing() {
+        let metadata = HTMLParser::parse_bytes(b"<html>\n<body>no head here</body>\n</html>\n");
+        assert_eq!(metadata.len(), 0);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/parsers/text/mod.rs b/src/parsers/text/mod.rs
index 2c1811330..555e83d96 100644
--- a/src/parsers/text/mod.rs
+++ b/src/parsers/text/mod.rs
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@
 #![allow(dead_code)]
 
 pub mod eps;
+pub mod html;
 pub mod txt;
 pub mod vcf;
 
 pub use eps::{EPSParser, parse_eps_metadata};
+pub use html::{HTMLParser, parse_html_metadata};
 pub use txt::{TXTParser, parse_txt_metadata};
 pub use vcf::VCFParser;