[Exist-open] Problem with & in XUpdate

[Ufuk K. <gr...@pa...>]

Hi there,

First of all thanks for a kick-ass XML database.

I am using the XML-RPC interface of eXist to create and update XML 
documents in the database. I am using eXist 1.0b1. My problem is that if 
I execute a query like:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xupdate:modifications version='1.0'
     xmlns:xupdate='http://www.xmldb.org/xupdate'>
  <xupdate:append select='/session' child='last()' >
    <xupdate:element name='document'>
      <xupdate:attribute name='url'>
        http://hedere/hodoro?abc=1&amp;dsc=5
      </xupdate:attribute>
      <xupdate:attribute name='ts'>
        2004-06-02 12:06:13.020
      </xupdate:attribute>
    </xupdate:element>
  </xupdate:append>
</xupdate:modifications>

Then the resulting <document> element has the attribute "url" as 
"dsc=5"; that is, everything upto the end of the "&amp;" is truncated.

I searched the GMane archive of this mailing list bu t could not come up 
with anything similar. Is this a known bug or am I doing something 
wrong? (BTW: I checked that the XML-RPC layer is sending the correct 
base64 encoded data. No problems there.)

Thanks,

Ufuk Kayserilioglu