[IVY-950] Maven pom license url can contain xml entities

• Type: Bug
• 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: Joakim Recht
• Created: 20/Oct/08 08:19
• Updated: 21/Oct/08 22:02
• Resolved: 20/Oct/08 22:54

Description

Some maven pom license elements have a url element with a value which contains xml entities, for example &. When this is converted to ivy.xml, the xml entity is converted so that & becomes &, and the ivy.xml cannot be parsed correctly afterwards. One example of this is http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven2/jboss/javassist/3.7.ga/javassist-3.7.ga.pom