diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index ea7a8885..efea3077 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ v2.0.0 (TBA)
 -Fixed (issue #601) - Make StringBlock thread safe (Thanks aluedeke)
 -Fixed (issue #238) - Fixed truncated UTF-16 strings
 -Fixed (issue #584) - Fixed horrible spacing, aligned for 4 spaces.
+-Fixed (issue #196) - Fixed style crash due to malformed styles.
 -Added output to list Apktool version to help debugging.
 -Updated known bytes for configurations to 38 (from addition of layout direction)
 -Fixed NPE when handling odex apks even with --no-src specified. (Thanks Rodrigo Chiossi)
diff --git a/brut.apktool/apktool-lib/src/main/java/brut/androlib/res/decoder/StringBlock.java b/brut.apktool/apktool-lib/src/main/java/brut/androlib/res/decoder/StringBlock.java
index ebe18d72..38686d16 100644
--- a/brut.apktool/apktool-lib/src/main/java/brut/androlib/res/decoder/StringBlock.java
+++ b/brut.apktool/apktool-lib/src/main/java/brut/androlib/res/decoder/StringBlock.java
@@ -184,18 +184,27 @@ public class StringBlock {
                 boolean loop = true;
                 while (loop) {
                     int pos2 = tag.indexOf('=', pos + 1);
-                    builder.append(' ').append(tag.substring(pos + 1, pos2)).append("=\"");
-                    pos = tag.indexOf(';', pos2 + 1);
 
-                    String val;
-                    if (pos != -1) {
-                        val = tag.substring(pos2 + 1, pos);
+                    // malformed style information will cause crash. so
+                    // prematurely end style tags, if recreation
+                    // cannot be created.
+                    if (pos2 != -1) {
+                        builder.append(' ').append(tag.substring(pos + 1, pos2)).append("=\"");
+                        pos = tag.indexOf(';', pos2 + 1);
+
+                        String val;
+                        if (pos != -1) {
+                            val = tag.substring(pos2 + 1, pos);
+                        } else {
+                            loop = false;
+                            val = tag.substring(pos2 + 1);
+                        }
+
+                        builder.append(ResXmlEncoders.escapeXmlChars(val)).append('"');
                     } else {
                         loop = false;
-                        val = tag.substring(pos2 + 1);
                     }
 
-                    builder.append(ResXmlEncoders.escapeXmlChars(val)).append('"');
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/brut.apktool/apktool-lib/src/test/resources/brut/apktool/testapp/res/values-fr/strings.xml b/brut.apktool/apktool-lib/src/test/resources/brut/apktool/testapp/res/values-fr/strings.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ad496d77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/brut.apktool/apktool-lib/src/test/resources/brut/apktool/testapp/res/values-fr/strings.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<resources>
+    <string name="test_formatting1"><a href="http://www.foo.com" style="text-decoration:none;">http://www.foo.com</a></string>
+    <string name="test_formatting2"><a href="http://www.foo.com" style="text-decoration:none">http://www.foo.com</a></string>
+</resources>
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