[GitHub] [uima-uimaj] mischor commented on a change in pull request #39: [UIMA-6225] Unable to install a pear package into a directory containing special character like <,> or &

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mischor commented on a change in pull request #39:
URL: https://github.com/apache/uima-uimaj/pull/39#discussion_r419740023



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File path: uimaj-core/src/main/java/org/apache/uima/pear/util/XMLUtil.java
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@@ -828,4 +862,18 @@ public static void printXMLTag(String tag, Properties 
attributes, PrintWriter oW
     oWriter.print('>');
     oWriter.flush();
   }
+  
+  private static String xmlEscape(String value)
+  {
+      if (value == null) {
+          return value;
+      }
+      
+      return value
+              .replace("&", "&")

Review comment:
       I wonder if the user has already written < for example, would this 
result in &amplt; ? In other words, does the replacement need  to first confirm 
that the character being replaced, isn't already in the right escape format?




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