Re: "Illegal character or entity reference syntax" error

[Peter Donald]

On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 11:42, Ma, Jian wrote:
> I'm trying to use <exec> task to run windows "net use" command.  It worked
> fine when the password I used for net use is something like 'abcdef'.  Once
> I have special charactors in it, such as '@', '|', '&', ant throws a
> "Illegal character or entity reference syntax" error.  I also got the same
> error when I try to assign a string with those special chars to a property
> using the <property> task.  I tried to use '\' to escape these special
> chars and that didn't help either.  Has anyone encounter the similiar
> problem?

The XML parser treats "&" and "@" characters specially. You need to encode 
them according to their unicode number. I think that means the following 
replacements

& --> &amp;
@ --> &#169;


I think "|" should be fine but if not you will need to escape it using the 
ascii/unicode escape (ie &#numbner;)
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Cheers,

Pete

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