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Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 10:32:20 +0200
From: Stefan Guggisberg <stefan.guggisberg@gmail.com>
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To: jackrabbit-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Repository Fatal Error
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doh! hit the wrong key again :( reposting it to the list...

On 5/17/05, Simon Gash <Simon.Gash@gossinteractive.com> wrote:
> OK I've walked my way through the code and this is what I found.
>=20
> The RSS reader passes the string (containing illegal XML character &) to
> me and then I use it to form the name of a new node. This is then saved
> in XML format by the persistence manager. However, when re-loading the
> node an XMLReader is used, this has problems with parsing the XML
> (containing the illegal character - its used to indicate the start of an
> entity reference) and logs an error, further down the stack an exception
> is raised as the node has no 'value'.
>=20
> I guess the solution would be to encode the xml on storage (& =3D &amp;),
> I did this manually and it worked fine. I'm not sure if I should be
> checking the new nodes name to ensure its good XML or whether JackRabbit
> should be doing it ?=20

you shouldn't need to worry about whether a name is a valid xml name as
long it is a valid jcr name. if an '&' within a node name causes problems
in the xml persistence manager that would definitely be a major bug.
i'll investigate.

thanks for bringing this up!

cheers
stefan

> Or how about using the CDATA to block escape
> literal text ?
>=20
> Any thoughts anyone...
>=20
> Thanks for your time.
>=20
> Simon
>=20
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Guggisberg [mailto:stefan.guggisberg@gmail.com]
> Sent: 16 May 2005 14:28
> To: jackrabbit-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Repository Fatal Error
>=20
> On 5/13/05, Simon Gash <Simon.Gash@gossinteractive.com> wrote:
> > I'm using JackRabbit to store some RSS feeds but now and again I get a
>=20
> > fatal error from the repository. I'm guessing that there is some text
> > in the RSS title that JackRabbit does not like (I'm attempting to
> > strip out punctuation but I'm probably missing something.
> >
> > Is there a way of repairing the repository ? and is there a way of
> > validating the input before I use it to create a node ?
> >
> > This is the repository exception I get
> >
> > [Fatal Error] :30:24: The entity name must immediately follow the '&'
> > in the entity reference.
> > ERROR:  'The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity
>=20
> > reference.'
> > java.util.NoSuchElementException: failed to retrieve item state of
> > item e2fa4f29-c6f7-4b46-b0d3-09568f564e0d
>=20
> please note that neither is a RepositoryException therefor it's hardly a
> "Repository Fatal Error". a stack trace would be helpful.
>=20
> cheers
> stefan
>=20
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