broken html causes an exception in Tomcat 5

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Having the following HTML in a page -

caused an array index out of bounds exception.
Stack trace -

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 13
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspReader.peekChar(JspReader.java:193)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspReader.isSpace(JspReader.java:386)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspReader.isDelimiter(JspReader.java:453)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspReader.parseToken(JspReader.java:434)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.checkUnbalancedEndTag(Parser.java:1737)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseElements(Parser.java:1599)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:171)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:253)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:137)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:237)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:456)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:439)
at org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:552)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:291)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:301)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:248)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:284)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:204)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:257)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:151)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:564)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:245)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:199)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:151)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:564)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:195)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:151)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:164)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:149)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:564)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:156)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:151)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:564)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:972)
at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:206)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:828)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:700)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:584)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:683)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)

The error is of course caused by the incomplete ending </html> tag, but should it throw an exception?

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