Doxygen: Illegal Character in XML output

Created on 13 Nov 2019 · 6Comments · Source: doxygen/doxygen

During processing I found the illegal character '&' in a XML attribute.

Example:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='no'?>
<doxygen xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="compound.xsd" version="1.8.16">
  <compounddef id="some_compounddef" kind="file" language="lang">
    <!-- ... -->
    <programlisting>
<codeline lineno="1"></codeline>
    </programlisting>
    <location file="path/file_&_name.dox"/>
  </compounddef>
</doxygen>

XML bug

Source

Alphastrick

All 6 comments

To be able to find the problem just an output snippet is not enough, looks like a problem with an unusual character in a file name.

Can you please attach a, small, self contained example (source+configuration file in a tar or zip) that allows us to reproduce the problem? Please don't add external links as they might not be persistent.
Please also specify the doxygen version used.

albert-github on 13 Nov 2019

With some effort I was able to reproduce the problem.
I've just pushed a proposed patch, pull request #7397

albert-github on 13 Nov 2019

👍1

The used Version of Doxygen is 1.8.16.
Here is the example code:
issue.zip

Alphastrick on 13 Nov 2019

👍1

Please don't closed the issue:

#7397 is just a proposed patch
when the proposed patch is integrated also don't close the issue as this will be done at the moment of a release

albert-github on 13 Nov 2019

Code has been integrated in master on github (please don't close the issue as this will be done at the moment of a release).

albert-github on 16 Nov 2019

This issue was previously marked 'fixed but not released',
which means it should be fixed in doxygen version 1.8.17.
Please verify if this is indeed the case. Reopen the
issue if you think it is not fixed and please include any additional information
that you think can be relevant (preferably in the form of a self-contained example).