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  1. Confluence Data Center
  2. CONFSERVER-39968

Unable to save a page due to XML encoding

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      Steps to replicate

      1. Install Confluence 5.8.16
      2. Create a new page and save the page
      3. Install Confluence Source editor
      4. Click edit on the new page and then find for '<>' to open the source editor
      5. Add the following code 
        <ac:structured-macro ac:name="code"><ac:parameter ac:name="title">1st step source code</ac:parameter><ac:parameter ac:name="linenumbers">true</ac:parameter><ac:parameter ac:name="language">xml</ac:parameter><ac:parameter ac:name="collapse">true</ac:parameter><ac:plain-text-body><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config charset="UTF-8">
  
  <!-- get the page -->
   <var-def name="profile_page_url">
     <script return="pPage">
         <![CDATA[
           pPage = org.apache.commons.httpclient.util.URIUtil.encodeQuery(profile_page.toString());
         ]]]]><![CDATA[>
     </script>
   </var-def>
  
   <var-def name="profilePage">
      <html-to-xml>
    		<http url="${profile_page_url}"/>
      </html-to-xml>
   </var-def>
     
     <var-def name="company_name_link">
       <xpath expression="//*/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/h3[1]/a[1]/@href">
              <template>${profilePage}</template>
          </xpath>
     </var-def>
     
   <export include-original-data="true" external-url="${profile_page_url}">  
    <single-column name="company_name_link" value="${company_name_link}" xpath="//*/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/h3[1]/a[1]/@href"/>      
   </export>
	
</config>]]></ac:plain-text-body></ac:structured-macro>

      Observed behaviour
      The user won't be able to save the page. They will be seeing the following error:

      Expected Behaviour
      User should be able to save the page

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          Suren Raj

            [CONFSERVER-39968] Unable to save a page due to XML encoding

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              Unassigned Unassigned
              sraj Suren Raj
              Affected customers:
              4 This affects my team
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