Maestro: does not properly escape GT symbol in map metadata

[jbirch]

When creating a MapDefinition, greater-than symbols within the map's MetaData are not converted to >

Maestro r4480

See package attached.

[jbirch]

Package containing (among other things) unescaped strings

[jbirch]

Originally thought this was a problem with export because it showed as escaped in the editor, but MapAgent shows the unescaped value too.

[jbirch]

I'm guessing this is because of different serialization code than Studio? I've also noticed other things like utf-8 being in lowercase, quotes not being escaped to ", etc.

[ksgeograf]

Should be easy to fix, but sounds very weird as the code does no manual handling of special chars.

[ksgeograf]

Ok, I have done some testing, and you are correct; it does not escape those characters.

But for some reason the Xml with the unescaped characters is accepted by any program that I can test with, eg.: MapGuide itself, Firefox and IE.

This suggests that the escape is done correctly, even if it is different than I would expect.

​http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#syntax

Describes that < MUST be escaped, where > MUST be escaped only in CDATA fragements.

I don't think I can fix Maestro so the output has those correctly escaped without writing a custom serializer.

[jng]

Can't seem to reproduce this in 3.0

Is this still the case?

[jng]

Due to my inability to reproduce the problem in the 3.0 editor, I am assuming the issues was fixed with the rewrite.