Quote (") is filtered in arguments.

[Joeri van Oostveen]

I have a command where I need to add a double quote ("), but the quote is filtered and the command failes to execute properly.

In plain shell, the command is build like this:

mxml [...skipped...] -define+=CONFIG::ColorSet,"Purple"

The "" are needed in the command, when I add these in the args attribute (which has a single quote) I notice in the slave (running with -v) the quotes are filtered away.

Is there a way to force these quotes? (If no, please add :) ).

Environment:

• Bitten 0.6dev-r567
• Trac 0.11.3
• MacOS X 10.4, Python 2.5

[Joeri van Oostveen <joeri@…>]

Escaping (\") the quotes works (but first time I misplaced the argument itself).

So this ticket can be closed (maybe it can be placed in the docs how to escape certain characters?).

[osimons]

Is that type of escaping the recommend approach? The recipes are XML files, and the general way of quoting conflicting characters in XML is to quote them using entities or similar. I use &quot; as in this example:

<sh:exec executable="python" args="-c 'print &quot;Hello, world&quot;'" />

If the docs don't contain information about quoting/escaping, it needs to be updated with recommended approach. I'll check, but will of course appreciate insight on the ticket from experienced recipe builders...

[osimons]

Note to self: See also link in comment:ticket:359:1 (useful for docs).

[osimons]

I've added basic docs for XML quoting in [662].