Confiforms: how to handle special characters in JIRA summary

[Pat L.]

I have a form definition with a field called "jiraissue" that is a "JIRA Issue" type of field.

When I use [entry.jiraissue.title] to display the title or summary in a plainview, I got the following error. 

Error: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxParsingException: Unexpected close tag

; expected . at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [2,294]

I found out that it is because the JIRA issue has special characters in it for example < and >.

If I remove these characters, it works fine. Is there anyway that I can avoid the errors without having to remove these characters from the returned titles from JIRA server?

Thanks,

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_ · Accepted solution]

Try using escapeXML function with it, so it does not break the storage format

 [entry.jiraissue.title.escapeXML]