[ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-756?page=co... ] Chris Wilson commented on HHH-756: ---------------------------------- I do consider this a bug as well. I'm being given hbm mapping files with quotes in them. Hibernate doesn't do anything at all to escape characters in these fields. From org.hibernate.mapping.Table sqlCommentStrings(): StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer() .append( "comment on table " ) .append( tableName ) .append( " is '" ) .append( comment ) .append( "'" ); comments.add( buf.toString() ); It is useful to have apostrophe/single quote and also double quote characters within <comment> elements, and I would like Hibernate to support that: <many-to-one name="country" class="org.wfp.rita.dao.Country" fetch="select"> <column name="cntcctryid"> <comment>Contact's address country</comment> </column> </many-to-one> "Doctor, it hurts if I do this..." is not always a good excuse. E.g. if you say "Doctor, it hurts when I breathe", the correct answer is not "well, don't do that". If the use case is valid and useful then it should not be excused away IMHO. Please reopen this bug. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira