paparazzi/paparazzi — Issue #154: Illegal characters in XML configuration files
Author: Ezio38
Created: 2012-03-05 14:02:45+00:00
State: open

Hi all,

I am currently using an XML parser to retrieve data from paparazzi XML configuration files.
I have noticed that some invalid characters make my parser crashes :-(.

The characters implied are the left and right angle brackets "<" and ">". Indeed XML standards doesn't allow the use of these characters in values. However you can find them in values of attribute **key** in the following files:

$ grep -rni "key=\"<" *
conf/flight_plans/basic.xml:44:
conf/flight_plans/poles.xml:40:

I think that the recommendation is to use "<" and ">" within the value instead of "<" and ">" respectively in the XML file.

Could you fix that please ?

Thanks a lot,
Jeremy.