[LOG4J2-1313] <Property name="" value="" /> not working

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.5
• Fix Version/s: 2.7
• Assignee: Remko Popma
• Reporter: Philipp Knobel
• Created: 09/Mar/16 12:50
• Updated: 13/Sep/16 13:55
• Resolved: 12/Sep/16 15:14

Description

The documentation shows examples of the property tag like this (http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/configuration.html#ConfigurationSyntax):

<Properties>
    <Property name="name1">value</property>
    <Property name="name2" value="value2"/>
  </Properties>

When using the later one with the value attribute you'll get on startup this error:

ERROR Property contains an invalid element or attribute "value"

It would be good to have the attribute support working as well, as otherwise it might happen that IDE auto formatting is line breaking an attribute. If this isn't possible please update the documentation.