[GROOVY-3933] XmlTemplateEngine does not handle quotes in attribute values

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8-beta-1
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.8, 1.7.1, 1.8-beta-1
• Component/s: Templating
• Environment: OpenJDK 6, Linux
• Assignee: Roshan Dawrani
• Reporter: Marcus Better
• Created: 11/Dec/09 05:03
• Updated: 07/Apr/10 23:46
• Resolved: 14/Dec/09 21:04

Description

XmlTemplateEngine cannot handle quotes in attributes like this:

<document a='quoted "string"'/>

Caught: groovy.lang.GroovyRuntimeException: Failed to parse template script (your template may contain an error or be trying to use expressions not currently supported): startup failed:
XmlTemplateScript1.groovy: 2: unexpected token: string @ line 2, column 33.
   out.print("<document a='quoted "string"'/>\n");