tree xml parse error id contains ampersand

[mail.micke]

Hi

The nodes in my tree may contain ampersand and other crazy German characters.

Currently I'm getting an XML parse error pointing to the ampersand.

Had a look at the generated source and discovered that the node content is used as part of the element id. For the most cases the ampersand is escaped properly but in at least one place it isn't.


xhtml code:

<rich:tree style='width:120px;max-width:120px;width:expression(100 +"px");'
 switchType="client"
 value="#{sdb2.filterTree}"
 var="item"
 nodeFace="#{item.type}">
 <rich:treeNode type="cpty">
 <h:outputText value="#{item.cpty}"/>
 </rich:treeNode>
 <rich:treeNode id="branch" type="branch">
 <h:outputText value="#{item.branch}"/>
 </rich:treeNode>
 <rich:treeNode id="db_entity" type="db_entity">
 #{item.dbEntity}
 </rich:treeNode>
 <rich:treeNode type="product">
 <a4j:commandLink value="#{item.productType}"
 action="#{sdb2.filter(item)}"
 reRender="posListingTable"/>
 </rich:treeNode>
</rich:tree>

a4jLog (full here http://pastebin.com/f54dcd58e ):

error[10:16:52,577]: Error parsing XML
error[10:16:52,577]: Parse Error: XML Parsing Error: Whitespace is not allowed at this location.
Location: Line Number 1, Column 3162:
Richfaces_Tree_j_id10_j_id24.getNodeElements(['j_id10:j_id24:DEU:LDN:Reuschel & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, München:FXFORWARD::j_id32'] );</script>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------^

Would be very happy for comments.

With some effort I could solve this in the model object by replacing all & with "and", but I'd rather not since I use the date in the tree for comparisons with data from a database and then I need to process that data in the same way ;(


Regards,
Micke

[nbelaevski]

Hello,

What are your parser settings (parser is configured in web.xml)?

[mail.micke]

Hi

Like this:

 <context-param>
 <param-name>org.ajax4jsf.xmlparser.ORDER</param-name>
 <param-value>NEKO</param-value>
 </context-param>

(I played around with the parser settings to speed up rendering of pages with large datatables.)

Thanks,
micke

[mail.micke]

Hi

Have you had any time to look at this yet?

Curious if it is something which I can fix (without using TIDY filter, if that fixes it I don't know) or if I should file a JIRA.

Currently this is a show stopper for me and I'll have to manually convert the troublesome & to "and" or something if it can't be fixed by other means.

Cheers,
Micke

[nbelaevski]

Micke,

I cannot reproduce the issue with NEKO, it is working ok for me. Please file the issue to JIRA.

P.S. What is your Richfaces version?

[mail.micke]

Hi,
thanks for looking at this.

I'm using version 3.2.1.GA.

The problem doesn't manifest itself when first rendering the page, it happens when I click the a4j:commandLink for the product type node. Did you try that?

Which version did you use?

Many thanks,
micke

[mail.micke]

JIRA created https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/RF-4351

[ronanker]

I've just corrected in my app a bug that nearly sounds like yours or others like yours...
about "Error parsing responseXML Parsing Error" error :

actually i have a a4j:commandLink that have an action that sometimes do ajax navigation and sometimes server navigation. returning 'null' or returning 'go_page' where 'go_page' is defined in faces-config.xml

<navigation-case>
 <from-outcome>go_page</from-outcome>
 <to-view-id>/page.jsp</to-view-id>
 </navigation-case>

in this case, some IE will issue "Error parsing responseXML Parsing Error" when trying to put the destination page content into the curent window.
this is not the version of IE that makes the difference we have 7.0.5730.11 and 7.0.5730.13 and 7.0.6001.18000... for each one some computer will have the bug and some other won't have...

this bug drove me crazy for about 1 day and half, and finally, i found a workaround :

<navigation-case>
 <from-outcome>go_page</from-outcome>
 <to-view-id>/page.jsp</to-view-id>
 <redirect/>
 </navigation-case>

in this case, we no longer have any problem...

I let you the pleasure of searching why the following bug happen on some IE :

debug[12:03:40,138]: Header Ajax-Response not found, search in <meta>
debug[12:03:40,139]: Header Ajax-Expired not found, search in <meta>
warn[12:03:40,139]: No ajax response header
debug[12:03:40,140]: Header Location not found, search in <meta>
debug[12:03:40,147]: replace all page content with response
debug[12:03:40,148]: setup custom document.open method
debug[12:03:40,183]: exception during write page content undefined
error[12:03:40,231]: Error parsing responseXML Parsing Error: [...(any fool error... too strict validation ?)...]
debug[12:03:40,232]: page content has been replaced

note on firefox we have :

debug[12:12:10,192]: Header Ajax-Expired not found, search in <meta>
warn[12:12:10,192]: No ajax response header
debug[12:12:10,192]: Header Location not found, search in <meta>
debug[12:12:10,194]: replace all page content with response
debug[12:12:10,340]: window.document has opened for writing
debug[12:12:10,350]: window.document has been writed
debug[12:12:10,352]: window.document has been closed for writing
debug[12:12:10,352]: page content has been replaced

using the workaround :

debug[14:55:11,793]: Response with content-type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8
debug[14:55:11,793]: Full response content: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head>
 <meta name="Ajax-Response" content="redirect" />
 <meta name="Location" content="/page.jsf" /></head></html>
debug[14:55:11,793]: Header Ajax-Expired not found, search in <meta>
debug[14:55:11,794]: search for elements by name 'meta' in element #document
debug[14:55:11,802]: Find <meta name='Ajax-Response' content='redirect'>
debug[14:55:11,802]: Find <meta name='Location' content='/page.jsf'>
warn[14:55:11,803]: No ajax response header

[ronanker]

note : i can't show you the debug trace for IE when it works as a4j:log doesn't work in popup on IE and when i don't use popup the page refresh (it work) so i don't have time to copy the trace...

[nbelaevski]

Hi,

That seems to be the same as https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/RF-3745