[JDEV] bug in conferencing

[Jens Alfke]

On Friday, June 8, 2001, at 10:32 PM, Robert Temple wrote:

> If a person sends a message with some text that needs to be escaped, 
> like a
> '<' or '>' character,
> the conferencing component drops everything after the escaped character 
> when
> sending to others in
> the room.

I've run into the same bug [1.4.1 on Solaris] and I've seen it reported 
once or twice on the list already, but no one's answered.  I really 
don't want to delve into the server sources myself; for the time being 
I've just crudely worked around the problem in my client by replacing 
the XML special characters with innocuous ones, e.g. mapping "<" to "[", 
before sending a message.

--Jens