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> -----Original Message----- > From: Merrill Cornish [mailto:merrill.cornish at earthlink.net] > Sent: woensdag 7 september 2005 20:49 > To: erik.moons at isac.be; cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > Subject: Re: [cvsnt] fileattr.xml problem with & character > > >>> Probably something that needs to be corrected? > > No. Ampersands are active in quoted strings so they can be used as introducers to a > multitude of special characters. This usage is similar to the backslash in C and C++ > strings used to introduce special characters such as \t and \n. So, in either XML or C, > you have to escape the introducer characters. > > Merrill Correct, but when converting the older "fileattr" format to the XML based "fileattr.xml" (when upgrading from cvsnt2.0.51 to 2.5.0.2b2064) the escape sequence is not used and the fileattr.xml contains an unescaped & generating the error. I only encountered this problem after upgrading and with existing repositories, newly created repositories don't suffer from this and &'s are correctly escaped. Erik.