XML entity not supported in Maven 2 ----------------------------------- Key: MNG-3556 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3556 Project: Maven 2 Issue Type: Bug Components: General Reporter: Dan Fabulich Attachments: pom.xml
The attached XML file defines and uses an XML entity called "&blah;". It validates in FF and in other XML parsers, but when I attempt to load it up in Maven, I get the fellowing exception: {code} [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] FATAL ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM). Project ID: unknown POM Location: C:\blah\pom.xml Reason: Parse error reading POM. Reason: could not resolve entity named 'blah' (position: START_TAG seen ...</version>\r\n <name>&blah;... @11:15) for project unknown at C:\blah\pom.xml [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Trace org.apache.maven.reactor.MavenExecutionException: Parse error reading POM. Reason: could not resolve entity named 'blah' (position: START_TAG seen ...</version>\r\n <name>&blah;... @11:15) for project unknown at C:\blah\pom.xml at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:376) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:289) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:126) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:282) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375) Caused by: org.apache.maven.project.InvalidProjectModelException: Parse error reading POM. Reason: could not resolve entity named 'blah' (position: START_TAG seen ...</version>\r\n <name>&blah;... @11:15) for project unknown at C:\blah\pom.xml at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.readModel(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1416) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.readModel(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1377) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildFromSourceFileInternal(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:474) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.build(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:197) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProject(DefaultMaven.java:548) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java:458) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:362) ... 11 more Caused by: org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.XmlPullParserException: could not resolve entity named 'blah' (position: START_TAG seen ...</version>\r\n <name>&blah;... @11:15) at org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.MXParser.nextImpl(MXParser.java:1282) at org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.MXParser.next(MXParser.java:1093) at org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.MXParser.nextText(MXParser.java:1058) at org.apache.maven.model.io.xpp3.MavenXpp3Reader.parseModel(MavenXpp3Reader.java:2050) at org.apache.maven.model.io.xpp3.MavenXpp3Reader.read(MavenXpp3Reader.java:4422) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.readModel(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1412) ... 17 more [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: < 1 second [INFO] Finished at: Mon Apr 28 14:43:06 PDT 2008 [INFO] Final Memory: 1M/4M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ {code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira