Added apache commons text dependency.

Updated XMLUtils to use StringEscapeUtils to escape and unescape XML.
Updated XmlDecomposer to rely on the XML bytes and unscape/escape XML chars for the formalized extended attributes.

PowerDeComposer/pom.xml

@@ -108,6 +108,12 @@
 			<artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
 			<version>2.11.0</version>
 		</dependency>
+		<!-- Apache Commons Text for XML escape/unescaping. -->
+		<dependency>
+		    <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+		    <artifactId>commons-text</artifactId>
+		    <version>1.11.0</version>
+		</dependency>
 		<!-- JAX-B for the config. -->
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>jakarta.xml.bind</groupId>

PowerDeComposer/src/main/java/com/xbreeze/xml/decompose/XmlDecomposer.java

@@ -447,7 +447,11 @@ private VTDNav formalizeExtendedAttributesText(VTDNav nv) throws Exception {
 			if (nv.getTokenType(extAttrsTextNodeIndex) == VTDNav.TOKEN_STARTING_TAG) {
 				// Get the extended attribute text.
 				// Replace LF with CRLF, since VTD-Nav removes the carriage returns in the file (and PowerDesigner always has CRLF).
-				String extendedAttributesText = nv.toString(nv.getText()).replace("\n", "\r\n");
+				int extendedAttributeTextIndex = nv.getText();
+				//String extendedAttributesText = nv.toString(extendedAttributeTextIndex).replace("\n", "\r\n");
+				String extendedAttributesText = new String(nv.getXML().getBytes(nv.getTokenOffset(extendedAttributeTextIndex), nv.getTokenLength(extendedAttributeTextIndex)));
+				// We unescape the XML characters here, so the length property in the extended attributes can be used (cause it doesn't account for escaped XML characters).
+				extendedAttributesText = XMLUtils.unescapeXMLChars(extendedAttributesText);
 				logger.fine(String.format("Found extended attributes text: %s", extendedAttributesText.replaceAll("\n", "[LF]\n").replaceAll("\r", "[CR]")));
 
 				// The extended attribute text needs to be parsed so we can create the new XML elements.
@@ -473,7 +477,8 @@ private VTDNav formalizeExtendedAttributesText(VTDNav nv) throws Exception {
 					if (extAttrsEnd > extendedAttributesText.length())
 						throw new Exception("Error while formalizing extended attributes text: The extended attribute length is longer then the contents of the string. This should never happen!");
 
-					String extExtAttrContent = extendedAttributesText.substring(extAttrStart, extAttrsEnd);
+					// Get the extended attribute contents and escape XML chars, so we can make valid XML.
+					String extExtAttrContent = XMLUtils.escapeXMLChars(extendedAttributesText.substring(extAttrStart, extAttrsEnd));
 
 					// If we are inside a extension section, so currentExtensionExtAttrEnd != -1. And we find a match where the the end index is after the end of extension section we have a problem.
 					// The end of an extension section should always be equal or after any child sections.
@@ -785,7 +790,7 @@ private Path parseAndWriteDocumentParts(VTDNav nv, Charset fileCharset, TargetFi
 				// Loop through the include attributes to add the min the include tag.
 				for (String includeAttributeName : includeAttributesWithValues.keySet()) {
 					// Insert the include sub element in the include tag.
-					includeElementStringBuffer.append(String.format(" %s=\"%s\"", includeAttributeName, XMLUtils.excapeXMLChars(includeAttributesWithValues.get(includeAttributeName))));				
+					includeElementStringBuffer.append(String.format(" %s=\"%s\"", includeAttributeName, XMLUtils.escapeXMLChars(includeAttributesWithValues.get(includeAttributeName))));				
 				}
 				includeElementStringBuffer.append(" />");
 

PowerDeComposer/src/main/java/com/xbreeze/xml/utils/XMLUtils.java

@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
+import org.apache.commons.text.StringEscapeUtils;
+
 import com.ximpleware.AutoPilot;
 import com.ximpleware.ModifyException;
 import com.ximpleware.NavException;
@@ -49,8 +51,17 @@ public class XMLUtils {
 	 * @param input The text to escape.
 	 * @return The escaped input.
 	 */
-	public static String excapeXMLChars(String input) {
-		return input.replaceAll("\\<", "&lt;").replaceAll("\\>", "&gt;");
+	public static String escapeXMLChars(String input) {
+		return StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml10(input);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Unescape XML characters.
+	 * @param input The xml input with escaped XML.
+	 * @return The xml with unescaped chars.
+	 */
+	public static String unescapeXMLChars(String input) {
+		return StringEscapeUtils.unescapeXml(input);
 	}
 
 	/**

PowerDeComposer/src/test/resources/com/xbreeze/xml/test/decompose/ExtendedAttributes.feature

@@ -150,7 +150,6 @@ Feature: Decompose Extended Attributes
       </RootElement>
       """
 
-  @Debug
   Scenario: Formalize extended attributes with XML chars
   	Given the config file:
       """