I am attempting to deploy a very simple portlet onto JBoss Portal 2.7.2 (running on Mac OSX). There is a requirement for the resulting HTML to be XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant. Within the portlet I have a snippet of JavaScript that is designed to dynamically submit an asynchronous GET request using a JQuery library. However, when using the <portlet:resourceURL/> tag to help create the URL to send the request to, I notice that the ampersands in the URL are not encoded properly and so validating the HTML is failing. I have tried changing the use of the tag to <portlet:resourceURL escapeXml="true"/>. I have also tried passing the javax.portlet.escapeXml system property on the JBoss command line by adding the following to my run.sh script: JAVA_OPTS="-Djavax.portlet.escapeXml=true $JAVA_OPTS" But nothing seems to make any difference. And the worst part is, it appears that even the ampersands that I have been hand encoding are being converted back to unencoded ampersands. For example, in the JavaScript, I want to dynamically append one more request parameter to the URL that is generated by the <portlet:resourceURL/> tag like this: var url = "<portlet:resourceURL/>&name=" + name; However, the encoded ampersand before the name parameter gets simply converted to a single ampersand character when I view the source through Firebug etc. Like this: var url = "/portal/auth/portal/default/Theme+Test/Quick+Extension+LookupWindow_90?action=b&cacheability=PAGE&name=" + name; The actual JS code runs fine, but the page is failing the XHTML validation, which is a showstopper. What am I missing? Thanks View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4239537#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...