[MNG-3657] Ampersand characters cannot be used in profiles.xml (XML parsed twice)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.9
• Component/s: Profiles
• Environment: OS X (Leopard), Ubunut 8.04
• Assignee: Benjamin Bentmann
• Reporter: Alexey Maslov
• Created: 06/Jul/08 13:54
• Updated: 07/Apr/10 07:16
• Resolved: 07/Apr/10 07:16

Description

It is not possible to use ampersand characters in the profiles.xml because this is evaluated twice.

My case:
In my profiles.xml, I specify a database connection URL for MySQL where the ampersand character is
used for separating connection parameters:
jdbc:mysql://localhost/myproject?autoReconnect=true&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8

Because of the XML format, amperands are specified as "&". However, this results in an exception (see attached
excerpt of the stack trace). Is is also not possible to specify the URL in a CDATA section (or even in a combination
of & and CDATA).

Issue Links

• duplicates: MNG-3662 Model interpolation crashes if property resolves to value with ampersand
• relates to: MNG-4625 Interpolation of settings.xml fails if an expression's value contains XML markup