MyFaces to JSF RI migration issue

Question

I'm migration from MyFaces 1.2.6 to JSF RI 1.2. My application also use Facelets, Tomahawk and Richfaces.

Using MyFaces 1.2.6, it works without problemas. Using JSF RI 1.2, I got some problems.

It keeps printing this error:

This page contains the following errors:

error on line 141 at column 36: xmlParseEntityRef: no name
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

Content of line 141:

<f:facet  name="footer">

Does anyone know what can I do about it?

Answer 1

Given the error xmlParseEntityRef, I would check for stray XML entities (look for ampersands - &).

Also check the values being emitted by any EL expressions (e.g. ${baz.mystring}). If MyFaces encoded the string "foo & bar" as foo & bar, but the RI emitted it straight as foo & bar, then this might cause a problem.