[GROOVY-3002] XmlNodePrinter does not propertly handle special characters within tag values

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.6, 1.6-beta-1
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.7, 1.6-beta-2
• Component/s: XML Processing
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Raptor Audio
• Created: 14/Aug/08 23:15
• Updated: 05/Apr/15 14:44
• Resolved: 06/Sep/08 05:41

Description

A previous fix for the XmlNodePrinter escaped special characters within attributes, but not within the value. The printEscaped method should also be called within the value.

import groovy.util.XmlNodePrinter;

def doc = """<Root attribute="&lt;&quot;&amp;&gt;">&lt;&amp;&gt;</Root>""";

def root = new XmlParser().parseText(doc);
def writer = new StringWriter();

new XmlNodePrinter(new PrintWriter(writer)).print(root);

println writer.toString();

Originally would produce:

<Root attribute="&lt;&quot;&amp;&gt;">
  <&>
</Root>

After patch, produces: