Unmarshalling Metadata + &

[Peter Schober]

* Chuck Kimber <chuck.kimber at usu.edu> [2012-10-09 18:20]:
> I roll through the error and see a message about the "cause" which seems to
> be a raw amperstand in the metadata xml.  This metadata previously worked
> and never had this problem and is static in our file - provided by vendor
> ServiceNow for their SP.  I open the file and inspect/search for ANY
> amperstands, so I can replace them, but there are NO amperstands in the xml
> anywhere, nor can I spot any rogue xml tags floating around - everything is
> open, closed, attributed and namespaced correctly.

Try checking well-formedness and schema validity, just in case:
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/MetadataCorrectness

Sure you did correctly endorse the necessary files in your container?
What version of the IdP is this?
-peter