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Bug 200901

Summary:	org.w3c.dom.DOMException: INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: An invalid or illegal XML character is specified.
Product:	projects	Reporter:	Marian Petras <mpetras>
Component:	Maven	Assignee:	Jesse Glick <jglick>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	7.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:	180573
Attachments:	stacktrace

Description Marian Petras 2011-08-12 12:11:35 UTC

Build: NetBeans IDE 7.0.1 (Build 201107282000)
VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM, 20.1-b02, Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment, 1.6.0_26-b03
OS: Windows XP

User Comments:
mpetras: I just started the IDE, Maven project configuration file (pom.xml) was the active editor window (among approx. 40 other open files).




Stacktrace: 
org.w3c.dom.DOMException: INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: An invalid or illegal XML character is specified. 
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.checkQName(CoreDocumentImpl.java:2582)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.ElementNSImpl.setName(ElementNSImpl.java:117)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.ElementNSImpl.<init>(ElementNSImpl.java:80)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.createElementNS(CoreDocumentImpl.java:2095)
   at org.netbeans.modules.maven.MavenProjectPropsImpl.writeAuxiliaryData(MavenProjectPropsImpl.java:157)
   at org.netbeans.modules.maven.MavenProjectPropsImpl.put(MavenProjectPropsImpl.java:132)

Comment 1 Marian Petras 2011-08-12 12:11:40 UTC

Created attachment 109947 [details]
stacktrace

Comment 2 Jesse Glick 2011-08-12 16:24:00 UTC

I can suppress the exception, but whatever preference was being written cannot be, since it is using some character illegal in XML. It is impossible to see from the stack trace what code was storing the problematic key, since the exception occurs during an asynch flush; I think (but am not sure) that if you were using a dev build (or otherwise had assertions enabled) the full stack trace would be visible. Nor does Xerces report what the actual bad qname was (I will include that information in the warning that will replace this exception).

Comment 3 Jesse Glick 2011-08-12 16:49:17 UTC

core-main #3dda07c44e0b

Comment 4 Quality Engineering 2011-08-13 14:16:54 UTC

Integrated into 'main-golden'
Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/3dda07c44e0b
User: Jesse Glick <jglick@netbeans.org>
Log: #200901: org.w3c.dom.DOMException: INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: An invalid or illegal XML character is specified.