[MSITE-933] mvn site fails when <name> contains &amp;

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 3.12.1, 4.0.0-M6
• Environment: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS ; Apache Maven 3.9.0 ; Java version: 17.0.4.1, vendor: Eclipse Adoptium
• Assignee: Michael Osipov
• Reporter: Heiko
• Created: 29/Mar/23 13:00
• Updated: 30/Mar/23 18:55
• Resolved: 30/Mar/23 18:55

Description

A project containing an escaped ampersand in the name element fails in mvn site.

Consider a project containing nothing but this pom.xml:

 

<project>
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>experiments</groupId>
    <artifactId>experiments</artifactId>
    <name>client for A&amp;B services</name>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</project> 

This project builds fine with the standard build cycle, e.g. mvn install.

However, with mvn site (or explicitly mvn site:4.0.0-M6:site) it throws an error:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:4.0.0-M6:site (default-cli) on project experiments: SiteToolException: Error parsing site descriptor: entity reference name can not contain character  ' (position: START_DOCUMENT seen ...//maven.apache.org/xsd/decoration-2.0.0.xsd" name="client for A&B ... @2:142) -> [Help 1]

Escaping the ampersand twice helps, but it shouldn't be necessary:

    <name>client for A&amp;amp;B services</name>  

 

 

Issue Links

• duplicates: MSITE-226 Missing escaping of ${project.name} for default site descriptor
• is fixed by: DOXIASITETOOLS-299 Site descriptor interpolation does not properly escape reserved XML chars
• is related to: MNG-6435 DefaultSettingsBuilder assumes all SettingsReader/Writer impls will use XML