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xdocs entity encoding problem for single quote

Details

  • Type: Bug Bug
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: 1.0-beta-7
  • Fix Version/s: 1.0-beta-10
  • Component/s: core
  • Labels:
    None
  • Environment:
    IE4 on widows
  • Number of attachments :
    0

Description

This is a problem with xdocs that contain single quotes. When maven generates the html output, it replaces the single quote with
the following:

'

This seems to keep mozilla happy but Internet Explorer does not know
what to do with this. However, IE does seem to be able to handle the
character code represetation of the single quote which is this:

'

However, it seems to be impossible to get Maven to spit out ' in a .html file. It instead will always produce ' in the end html document

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Task - A task that needs to be done. MAVEN-401 Release maven-b10

  • Major - Major loss of function.
  • Closed - The issue is considered finished, the resolution is correct. Issues which are not closed can be reopened.

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Ben Walding added a comment -

Both ' and ' are converted to ' in the resulting html. This resolves this particular issue, but I suspect there are further gotchas especially in the case of &

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Ben Walding added a comment - Both ' and ' are converted to ' in the resulting html. This resolves this particular issue, but I suspect there are further gotchas especially in the case of &

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  • Assignee:
    Ben Walding
    Reporter:
    John Thorhauer
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