id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
12452	XML log can contain unescaped characters from test output	Igor Akhmetov <igor.akhmetov@…>	Gennadiy Rozental	"XML log format does not escape user test output, so the resulting XML file is not valid, e.g.

{{{
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(test)
{
    std::cout << ""&"";
}
}}}

This issue makes it impossible to parse the output with standard XML parsers.

A file log sink can be used to separate Boost.Test output from user output. Unfortunately, the XML reporter does not flush the output stream, so if a unit test runner wants to show test results as soon as they are available, the stderr sink is the only option.

For comparison, the Catch unit test framework redirects cout and cerr and later prints escaped output inside a corresponding XML node."	Bugs	new	To Be Determined	test	Boost 1.61.0	Problem		XML