[jdom-interest] url as attribute value changes & to &

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 11:41 PM -0400 7/25/02, Phillip Rhodes wrote:
>I saw a reference to this in the FAQ, and a couple prior postings, 
>but I still do not see the solution.
>My problem is simple.  I am creating a "img" element , and set an 
>attribute called "src" to be the URL that will build a dynamic graph.
>I use XMLOutputter to create my <img src="url is here"/>
>
>

JDOM is correct. You cannot include an unescaped ampersand in an 
attribute value in XML. Whichever process is failing to unescape the 
&amp; in the attribute values before using it as a URL is incorrect. 
You will have to fix the process on the other end.
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