[GROOVY-1456] MarkupBuilder fails to escape entities in multi-line attributes

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-JSR-6
• Fix Version/s: 1.1-beta-3
• Component/s: XML Processing
• Environment: Fedora core 3, JDK 1.5
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Jon Skeet
• Created: 11/Aug/06 05:02
• Updated: 26/Sep/07 20:30
• Resolved: 22/Aug/07 02:42

Description

A single-line string used as an attribute is escaped by MarkupBuilder; a multi-line string isn't.

For example:
import groovy.xml.*
MarkupBuilder builder = new MarkupBuilder()
builder.test
{
def multi = '''
Jon & Co
'''
def single = 'Jon & Co'
inner (multi:multi, single:single)
}

produces:

<test>
<inner multi='
Jon & Co
' single='Jon & Co' />
</test>