[Pcgen-trackers] [ pcgen-Bugs-1481697 ] Ampersand in Description Fields Causes Export Failure

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Bugs item #1481697, was opened at 2006-05-04 10:01
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Category: Export Character
>Group: To be fixed For 5.12
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: James Dempsey (jdempsey)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Ampersand in Description Fields Causes Export Failure

Initial Comment:
On 5/3/06, pkukwork
<phi...@th...> wrote:

>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have the following problem with pdf output under
5.10. I get a
>> pop-up with the following message: "The entity name
must immediately
>> follow the '&' in the entity reference."
>>
>> What's up ?
>>
>> Philippe
>>


In XML/HTML, there are things called "entities", which
look like &amp;
(which is what is used for an ampersand). PCGen uses
XML to translate to PDF
format.

There have been efforts lately to "protect", or
"escape" ampersands in some
of the output sheet tokens - the problem is that these
can also cause
problems, because it's only in XML and HTML that you
want to see &amp;
instead of &, and because there are places that we want
an escaped character
in the text. You'll get this error if you use an
ampersand (&) somewhere in
a text field, where it isn't protected. You can work
around it by either
removing the ampersand, or replacing it with &amp;.

There are occasionally also errors with less than and
greater than signs;
these are &lt; and &gt;, respectively.

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