reckart commented on a change in pull request #39: URL: https://github.com/apache/uima-uimaj/pull/39#discussion_r421053452
########## File path: uimaj-core/src/main/java/org/apache/uima/pear/util/XMLUtil.java ########## @@ -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: Incidentally, when I first heard of the issue, I even suggested to simply escape the path before passing it to the PEAR installer, but got told it had already been tried and also hadn't worked. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org