Given that the issue, as filed, is incomplete since no PDF file was provided for debugging, this patch is really the best that we can do here. *Please note:* This patch will *not* enable the Metadata to be successfully parsed, but it should at least prevent the errors.
With the new XML parser, see PR 9573, the referenced PDF file now causes `getMetadata` to fail when incomplete XML tags are encountered. This provides a simple, and hopefully generally useful, work-around that may also help prevent future bugs.
(Without being able to reproduce nor even understand the other (non XML) errors mentioned in issue 8884, I'd say that this patch is enough to close that one as fixed.)
