Re: javadoc-task: HTML-Code for the doctitle attribute

[Klaus Thorwart]

Thanks to all, answering my question,

using the following substitutions solved the problem

< --> &lt;
> --> &gt;
& --> &amp;
" --> &quot;

regards
  Klaus

"Larry V. Streepy, Jr." wrote:
> 
> You might try putting the value into a property file, since that is not
> parsed as XML.
> 
> Also, have you tried using &lt; in the doctitle specification?  I don't
> recall when the normalization of entities occurs when parsing an XML
> file.  A quick test of:
> 
>    <property name="thevalue" value="&lt;foo>some title&lt;/foo>"/>
>    <echo message="it is ${thevalue}"/>
> 
> results in "it is <foo>some title</foo>"
> 
> Klaus Thorwart wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have set up a javadoc task for our software which works fine, as long
> > as I use only pure text for the values of the attributes of doctitle,
> > bottom and header. As soon as I try to use real HTML-Tags within these
> > values I get messages like the following:
> >
> > ant -buildfile tmp.xml
> > Buildfile: tmp.xml
> >
> > BUILD FAILED
> >
> > /klaus-dev/RODON-II/LM/rodonII/tmp.xml:19: Use "&lt;" for "<" in
> > attribute values.
> >
> > Total time: 2 seconds
> >
> > The corresponding xml-file has the following contents:
> >
> > <project name="simpleCompile" default="docs" basedir=".">
> >    <target name="init">
> >       <property name="sourceDir" value="src" />
> >       <property name="tstSourceDir" value="tstsrc" />
> >       <property name="outputDir" value="cls" />
> >       <property name="tstOutputDir" value="tstcls" />
> >       <property name="build.compiler" value="modern" />
> >       <property name="reports.tests" value="tstcls" />
> >    </target>
> >    <target name="docs" depends="init">
> >      <javadoc packagenames="x.y.z"
> >            classpath="${outputDir}:${tstOutputDir}:bin/AcmeCrypto.jar"
> >            sourcepath="src"
> >            destdir="reference"
> >            author="true"
> >            version="true"
> >            use="true"
> >            windowtitle="RODON II Reference"
> >            doctitle="<h1>RODON</h1>">
> >      </javadoc>
> >    </target>
> > </project>
> >
> > Does anybody know how to solve this problem ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >   Klaus
> 
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> 
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