Character escaping

If you use special characters as property value or variable name or value then there is a problem when saving the configuration. Until version v2.8 these special characters destroyed the valid XML structure.
With the release of v2.8.5 all strings are escaped for valid XML.

The following characters are now allowed:

< > & " ' \

NOTE: The property names should not contain any of the special characters. Even if they are escaped the XML parser will not parse the configuration anymore when the configuration is loaded. For example if you try to use a name like

1<2

and even it is escaped to

1& lt;2

the parser will not handle it.