SMP/E GIM20313S Ampersand in SMPSRVR data set

[Paul Gilmartin]

I just got something like the following by accident:

1PAGE 0001  - NOW SET TO GLOBAL ZONE          DATE 08/14/05  TIME 01:06:25  
SMP/E 33.07   SMPOUT   OUTPUT

  RECEIVE  FROMNETWORK( SERVER( SMPSRVR ) ... ).

 ----------    pw="abcde&fghij"
 GIM20313S ** THERE IS A SYNTAX ERROR IN THE CONTROL STATEMENT FROM DD 
STATEMENT SMPSRVR AT COLUMN 14.

(That's not my real password.)

So, I RTFM, which says:

#    1.3 "SMP/E V3R3.0 Commands"
     
__________________________________________________________________________________
1.3 Syntax Rules for XML Statements
       [ ... ]
     * The XML markup characters, '<', '>', and '&', may not appear within a 
tag name or
       an attribute value.

Ouch!  So what if my password happens to contain one of these characters?

HTML, which, like XML, is a descendant of SGML, provides the encodings "&lt;",
"&gt;", and "&amp;" for these three characters.  Does XML provide nothing 
similar?

-- gil
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