Searching "&" character

[Jaka Jaksic <ja...@telemach.net>]

Hi!

Is it possible to perform a full-text search for a string containing an "&"
character?

For example this query:
	//element(*, nt:file)[jcr:contains(., 'Dolce&Gabbana')]

... produces the following error:
	Encountered: "G" (71), after : "\'Dolce&"

... presumably because it expects an XML entity following the "&".
However, if I replace the "&" with an "&", the query works, but finds
only literal "&" strings (e.g. "Dolce&Gabbana"), which is useless.

Is there another way to properly escape the "&" character?


Thanks & regards,
Jaka

Re: Searching "&" character

[Marcel Reutegger <ma...@day.com>]

Hi Jaka,

this is a bug in the jackrabbit query handler. it does not decode predefined 
entities in string literals before the query is executed.

I've filed a jira issue:

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-739

As a workaround you can replace the & with a ?, which acts as a wildcard in the 
contains query string. That's not exactly the same but close ;)

regards
  marcel

Jaka Jaksic wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Is it possible to perform a full-text search for a string containing an "&"
> character?
> 
> For example this query:
> 	//element(*, nt:file)[jcr:contains(., 'Dolce&Gabbana')]
> 
> ... produces the following error:
> 	Encountered: "G" (71), after : "\'Dolce&"
> 
> ... presumably because it expects an XML entity following the "&".
> However, if I replace the "&" with an "&", the query works, but finds
> only literal "&" strings (e.g. "Dolce&Gabbana"), which is useless.
> 
> Is there another way to properly escape the "&" character?
> 
> 
> Thanks & regards,
> Jaka
> 
>