[izpack-users] No backslashification in XML files?

[Andrew Warinner]

I've noticed that when doing variable substitution in XML IzPack does
not backslashify the values. This is causing me grief with Windows
pathnames.

For example I install a log4j.xml file like this:

            <file src="lib/log4j.xml" targetdir="$INSTALL_PATH/lib"/>
            <parsable type="xml" targetfile="${INSTALL_PATH}/lib/log4j.xml"/>

log4j.xml contains:

  <appender name="LogFileAppender" class="org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender">
    <param name="File" value="${INSTALL_PATH}${FILE_SEPARATOR}doQ.log" />
    <param name="Append" value="true"/>
    <param name="MaxFileSize" value="1MB"/>
    <param name="MaxBackupIndex" value="5"/>
    <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
      <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{ISO8601} %t %-5p
*%c{1}* - %m%n" />
    </layout>
  </appender>

When installing under Windows with INSTALL_PATH=C:\Documents and
Settings\awarinner\doQ-1.7, the above comes out as:

  <appender name="LogFileAppender" class="org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender">
    <param name="File" value="C:\Documents and
Settings\awarinner\doQ-1.7\doQ.log" />
    <param name="Append" value="true"/>
    <param name="MaxFileSize" value="1MB"/>
    <param name="MaxBackupIndex" value="5"/>
    <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
      <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{ISO8601} %t %-5p
*%c{1}* - %m%n" />
    </layout>
  </appender>

But this causes log4j to choke, what I really want is INSTALL_PATH to
be substituted like this:

    <param name="File" value="C:\\Documents and
Settings\\awarinner\\doQ-1.7\\doQ.log" />

so log4j will understand the backslash path and everything will be copacetic.

Am I misunderstanding the effect of setting parsable type="xml" or
does variable substitution not work with XML?

Puzzled,

Andrew Warinner