Name: bsC130419 Date: 07/12/2001


The version number of the JDK installed on my machine is irrelevant; I'm
reporting based on your 1.4beta documentation.

The JDK 1.4beta logging guide
(http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/guide/util/logging/overview.html)
implies that XMLFormatter does not encode XML special characters.

Specifically, in section 1.14, it says:

   Similarly, formatters such as the XMLFormatter do not attempt to
   protect themselves against nested log messages inside message strings.

If XMLFormatter does not encode characters such as "<" and "&" in message
strings when it writes them as XML, that is a serious bug.
(Review ID: 127996)
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