[IVY-921] Maven accepts illegal XML for its pom's, Ivy not.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-RC1
• Fix Version/s: 2.0-RC2
• Component/s: Maven Compatibility
• Assignee: Maarten Coene
• Reporter: Hans Dockter
• Created: 29/Sep/08 08:17
• Updated: 21/Oct/08 22:02
• Resolved: 30/Sep/08 22:23

Description

Maven seems to generate illegal XML for its pom's. For example if the developers have a special character in there name.

Two examples:

http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/qdox/qdox/1.6/qdox-1.6.pom
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus/1.0.4/plexus-1.0.4.pom

I have run lately a couple of times into problems with this. Maven itself seems to be happy with that. Ivy definitely not:

[ivy:retrieve] :::: ERRORS
[ivy:retrieve] The entity "oslash" was referenced, but not declared.