XML entity not supported in Maven 2
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                 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}

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