coloured command output not escaped in report

[Javier Collado]

When a shell command contains coloured output, it's not escaped properly in the comment tag in the checkbox report. Hence, the report cannot be viewed locally because of a parsing error in the submission.xml file.

As a workaround I tried to remove the escape character from the command (^[) and it worked fine. I also tried to mark the comment tag contents with a CDATA section, but it didn't work for some reason (maybe changing the encoding in the report file could help).

If you need further information to reproduce the problem, please let me know.

[David Murphy (schwuk)]

Please could attach your submission.xml (or the relevant snippet) so I can reproduce/debug?

[Javier Collado (javier.collado)]

Sure, please find the submission.xml file attached.

[Marc Tardif (cr3)]

This problem has been fixed and released as detailed in bug #485445, but I thought I would take this opportunity to mention here that the solution consisted of piping the output of commands with potential ansi characters through the ansi_parser script available in the base checkbox package.