[GROOVY-5460] HTML Builder changes & between URL parameters to &amp; when building an <a> tag

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.6
• Fix Version/s: 2.0-rc-1, 1.8.7
• Component/s: XML Processing
• Labels: builder html
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: mjparme
• Created: 18/May/12 14:10
• Updated: 15/Jun/12 22:56
• Resolved: 19/May/12 05:38

Description

If you use a HTML builder to build an <a> tag and you have parameters in the URL the separating & is changed to a &. This is probably desirable for XML but not HTML.

Example:

def writer = new StringWriter()
def builder = new groovy.xml.MarkupBuilder(writer)
builder.a(href: "http://www.example.com?foo=1&bar=2")
println writer.toString()

This outputs <a href='http://www.example.com?foo=1&amp;bar=2' /> when it should output <a href='http://www.example.com?foo=1&bar=2' />

I have attached a test case.