[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Exporting to PDF errors

[Blake Carver]

Depending on your version it'll be a slightly different issue, but something somewhere in there has an ampersand that is causing the PDF generator to barf.
There's one report here:
https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-1340

I've seen these most often in notes and usually on something like J&J or B&T, some kind of a note with an ampersand withOUT any spaces around it. Usually changing those to J & & or B & T will fix it. You can also change it to & and that might do the trick. Older versions of ArchivesSpace have more of those bugs than newer versions.
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From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org <archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> on behalf of Esh, John C. <jesh at towson.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 3:22 PM
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Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Exporting to PDF errors


For several finding aids, when I try to export to PDF, I’m getting this error…



Generating PDF for Athletics Department records

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 88; columnNumber: 42; The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference.

net.sf.saxon.s9api.DocumentBuilder.build(net/sf/saxon/s9api/DocumentBuilder.java:379)

java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(java/lang/reflect/Method.java:498)

org.jruby.javasupport.JavaMethod.invokeDirectWithExceptionHandling(org/jruby/javasupport/JavaMethod.java:453)

org.jruby.javasupport.JavaMethod.invokeDirect(org/jruby/javasupport/JavaMethod.java:314)

RUBY.parse(/as_server/current/gems/gems/saxon-xslt-0.8.2.2-java/lib/saxon/xml.rb:28)

RUBY.XML(/as_server/current/gems/gems/saxon-xslt-0.8.2.2-java/lib/saxon/processor.rb:58)

RUBY.XML(/as_server/current/gems/gems/saxon-xslt-0.8.2.2-java/lib/saxon/xml.rb:10)

RUBY.to_fo(/as_server/current/data/tmp/jetty-0.0.0.0-8089-backend.war-_-any-/webapp/WEB-INF/app/lib/AS_fop.rb:38)

RUBY.to_pdf(/as_server/current/data/tmp/jetty-0.0.0.0-8089-backend.war-_-any-/webapp/WEB-INF/app/lib/AS_fop.rb:44)

RUBY.block in run(/as_server/current/data/tmp/jetty-0.0.0.0-8089-backend.war-_-any-/webapp/WEB-INF/app/lib/job_runners/print_to_pdf_runner.rb:51)

If anyone has any thoughts as to what’s going on, I’d love to hear them. This isn’t the entirety of the error code, but it seems to repeat similar lines after this.



Thanks!



  *   John
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