id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc 7614 preferences.xml: invalid XML character / reference to entity anonymous team "If there is a (`U+2642`) or `&` in the preferences.xml, an error occures: ""Preferences file had errors. Making backup of old one to /home/test/.josm/preferences.xml.bak and creating a new default preference file."" This are allowed characters in filenames (for example ext3 filesystem). Example 1: {{{ #!xml (...) }}} {{{ Repository Root: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn Build-Date: 2012-04-14 14:26:11 Last Changed Author: simon04 Revision: 5181 Repository UUID: 0c6e7542-c601-0410-84e7-c038aed88b3b URL: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk Last Changed Date: 2012-04-14 12:01:16 +0200 (Sat, 14 Apr 2012) Last Changed Rev: 5181 org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x{2}) was found in the value of attribute ""{1}"" and element is ""1a"". at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:198) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:177) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:391) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(XMLScanner.java:1391) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.scanAttributeValue(XMLScanner.java:944) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanAttribute(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:436) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:253) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2732) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:625) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:116) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:488) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:812) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:741) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.validation.StreamValidatorHelper.validate(StreamValidatorHelper.java:147) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.validation.ValidatorImpl.validate(ValidatorImpl.java:116) at javax.xml.validation.Validator.validate(Validator.java:124) at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.Preferences.validateXML(Preferences.java:1476) at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.Preferences.load(Preferences.java:621) at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.Preferences.load(Preferences.java:583) at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.Preferences.init(Preferences.java:720) at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.MainApplication.main(MainApplication.java:194) }}} ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Example 2: {{{ #!xml (...) }}} {{{ Repository Root: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn Build-Date: 2012-04-14 14:26:11 Last Changed Author: simon04 Revision: 5181 Repository UUID: 0c6e7542-c601-0410-84e7-c038aed88b3b URL: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk Last Changed Date: 2012-04-14 12:01:16 +0200 (Sat, 14 Apr 2012) Last Changed Rev: 5181 org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The reference to entity ""bla"" must end with the ';' delimiter. at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:198) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:177) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:391) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(XMLScanner.java:1391) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.scanAttributeValue(XMLScanner.java:845) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanAttribute(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:436) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:253) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2732) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:625) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:116) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:488) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:812) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:741) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.validation.StreamValidatorHelper.validate(StreamValidatorHelper.java:147) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.validation.ValidatorImpl.validate(ValidatorImpl.java:116) at javax.xml.validation.Validator.validate(Validator.java:124) at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.Preferences.validateXML(Preferences.java:1476) at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.Preferences.load(Preferences.java:621) at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.Preferences.load(Preferences.java:583) at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.Preferences.init(Preferences.java:720) at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.MainApplication.main(MainApplication.java:194) }}}" defect reopened normal Core