Bug 546488

Summary:	Publican breaks on string with ampersand and semi-colon (&string;)
Product:	[Community] Publican	Reporter:	Deon Ballard <dlackey>
Component:	publican	Assignee:	Jeff Fearn 🐞 <jfearn>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	1.6	CC:	jfearn, mmcallis, nb, publican-list, rlandman
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Description Deon Ballard 2009-12-11 01:05:27 UTC

I have a string in a code example which should be, literally:

&attribute_change;

I have tried replacing the ampersand with &amp; and with &#038; and the semi-colon with &#059;. However, when publican runs, it substitutes the characters and then errors out, claiming it can't find entity &attribute_change;.

The file is http://svn.devel.redhat.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/ecs/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/9.0/plugin/en-US/Data_Type_and_Structure_Reference.xml?view=log line 363, if that's necessary.

The exact error message is:
Beginning work on en-US
Data_Type_and_Structure_Reference.xml:389: parser error : Entity 'attribute_change' not defined
list_of_attrs[0] = &attribute_change;
                                   ^
The version of publican is, I believe, 1.0.

I think the solution needs to be something that allows me to use the proper string in the code example. Maybe a way to escape those characters?

Comment 1 Jeff Fearn 🐞 2009-12-11 01:33:49 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 545334 ***