From 2dc223b9e9caa284dd00dfdb505f1e0c69527c5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey Vladimirov <sergey@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 11:04:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] allow bad properties parsing

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk@1143758 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 .../src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/model/PropertyNode.java  | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/model/PropertyNode.java b/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/model/PropertyNode.java
index 251458e3f..187e3db18 100644
--- a/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/model/PropertyNode.java
+++ b/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/model/PropertyNode.java
@@ -57,10 +57,14 @@ public abstract class PropertyNode<T extends PropertyNode<T>>  implements Compar
     	  _cpStart = 0;
       }
 
-      if ( fcStart > fcEnd )
-          throw new IllegalArgumentException( "fcStart (" + fcStart
-                  + ") > fcEnd (" + fcEnd + ")" );
-  }
+        if ( _cpEnd < _cpStart )
+        {
+            _logger.log( POILogger.WARN, "A property claimed to end (" + _cpEnd
+                    + ") before start! "
+                    + "Resetting end to start, and hoping for the best" );
+            _cpEnd = _cpStart;
+        }
+    }
 
   /**
    * @return The start offset of this property's text.