JIRA 4.0 : Removing invalid characters from XML backups
This page last changed on Jul 22, 2005 by jeff.
In older versions of JIRA it was possible to cut & paste text containing control characters into JIRA issue fields. This causes problems, because JIRA's backup format is XML, and XML does not allow for the storage of most control characters . When XML containing control characters is imported into JIRA, the import fails with an error: To fix this, one needs to remove the control characters from the JIRA backup file. This can be done as follows:
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