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Atlas, beware the &

Ran into a bug with the Atlas June CTP today that was causing Atlas to error out. It was being caused by a “&” character in the page title, if you use & instead then all will be good in the world again (I suspect it’s causing a string concatenation in the atlas js to break, logged with MS).
Posted: Jul 06 2006, 11:42 PM by astopford | with 3 comment(s)
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foobar said:

Well, you should never actually render the "&" character directly anyhow.  It should always be &.

# July 6, 2006 9:27 PM

Pawel Pabich said:

Hmmmm,  I posted this bug a few months ago at asp.net forum and the Atlas team replied that it will be fixed in the next release.

# July 7, 2006 4:09 AM

Luis Abreu said:

well, no, it's nota causing a string concatenation to break. the problem is that the head element is included in a partial postback response (if it has  runat="server") and its content is not escaped on a cdata section. since the partial postback response is an xml message and you're using one of the "forbidden" xml chars...yep, you'll get a badly formed xml message on the server which won't be processed by the client portion of the framework.

# July 8, 2006 6:16 PM