diff --git a/lib/metanorma/standoc/cleanup_text.rb b/lib/metanorma/standoc/cleanup_text.rb
index 5cb998d5..13957127 100644
--- a/lib/metanorma/standoc/cleanup_text.rb
+++ b/lib/metanorma/standoc/cleanup_text.rb
@@ -88,6 +88,15 @@ def uninterrupt_quotes_around_xml(xmldoc)
         end
       end
 
+      # "abc<tag/>", def => "abc",<tag/> def
+      # TODO?
+      def uninterrupt_quotes_around_xml1(xmldoc)
+          xmldoc.xpath("//text()[preceding-sibling::*[1]]").each do |n|
+          uninterrupt_quotes_around_xml_skip(n) and next
+          uninterrupt_quotes_around_xml1(n.previous)
+        end
+      end
+
       IGNORE_QUOTES_ELEMENTS =
         %w(pre tt sourcecode stem asciimath figure bibdata passthrough
            identifier metanorma-extension).freeze
@@ -157,6 +166,20 @@ def dumb2smart_quotes(xmldoc)
         end
       end
 
+      def dumb2smart_quotesx(xmldoc)
+        # TODO?>
+        prev = ""
+        xmldoc.xpath("//* | //text()").each do |x|
+          x.is_a?(Nokogiri::XML::Node) or next
+          block?(x) and prev = ""
+          empty_tag_with_text_content?(x) and prev = "dummy"
+          x.text? or next
+ancestor_include?(x, IGNORE_QUOTES_ELEMENTS) and next
+ dumb2smart_quotes1(x, prev)
+          prev = x.text
+        end
+      end
+
       def dumb2smart_quotes1(curr, prev)
         /[-'"(<>]|\.\.|\dx/.match?(curr.text) or return
 
diff --git a/lib/metanorma/standoc/version.rb b/lib/metanorma/standoc/version.rb
index 92973ddd..49b3be59 100644
--- a/lib/metanorma/standoc/version.rb
+++ b/lib/metanorma/standoc/version.rb
@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@ def versioned(mod, flavour)
   end
 
   module Standoc
-    VERSION = "2.10.1".freeze
+    VERSION = "2.10.2".freeze
   end
 end
diff --git a/metanorma-standoc.gemspec b/metanorma-standoc.gemspec
index 1a676027..e081dff2 100644
--- a/metanorma-standoc.gemspec
+++ b/metanorma-standoc.gemspec
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.add_dependency "asciidoctor", "~> 2.0.0"
   spec.add_dependency "crass", "~> 1.0.0"
   spec.add_dependency "iev", "~> 0.3.0"
-  spec.add_dependency "isodoc", "~> 2.12.2"
+  spec.add_dependency "isodoc", "~> 2.12.4"
   spec.add_dependency "metanorma", ">= 1.6.0"
   spec.add_dependency "metanorma-plugin-datastruct", "~> 0.3.0"
   spec.add_dependency "metanorma-plugin-glossarist", "~> 0.2.0"