RE: context-param: illegal char

[G.Nagarajan]

>>      <param-value>jdbc:mysql://localhost/test?user=test&password=test</param-value> I think the & character is causing the problem, try replacing it with &amp;   Regards Nagaraj. -----Original Message----- From: Sam Terburg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 11:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: context-param: illegal char with this code in web.xml:       <context-param>       <param-name>database_dsn</param-name>       <param-value>jdbc:mysql://localhost/test?user=test&password=test</param-value>     </context-param>     i get this error:   Starting tomcat. Check logs/tomcat.log for error messages ERROR reading /home/jsp/forum/WEB-INF/web.xml At Next character must be ";" terminating reference to entity "password".   ERROR reading /home/jsp/forum/WEB-INF/web.xml java.lang.NullPointerException         at org.apache.tomcat.util.xml.XmlMapper.readXml(XmlMapper.java, Compiled Code)         at org.apache.tomcat.context.WebXmlReader.processFile(WebXmlReader.java, Compiled Code)         at org.apache.tomcat.context.WebXmlReader.contextInit(WebXmlReader.java, Compiled Code)         at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.initContext(ContextManager.java, Compiled Code)         at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.init(ContextManager.java:201)         at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.execute(Tomcat.java:156)         at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.main(Tomcat.java:163)   and   ERROR reading /home/jsp/forum/WEB-INF/web.xml At Illegal character or entity reference syntax.   and   bash: syntax error near unexpected token `&password=test</param-value>'       apparently & is an illegal character. but how do i solve this problem? i've thought of url_encoding this, but that's an ugly sollution. anybody got a better idea?   Greets,   Sam.