The error message:

   ERROR:  There is an illegal character in the entity name

may be encountered when using the %MDUCHGL and %XMLTRANS macros.

Macro %MDUCHGL is used to generate XML to synchronize User information
between an external source and the Metadata Server. When a new object is
being added to the Metadata, a symbolic reference is generated using the
following values: "&Reposid..$" || keyid, where &Rposid is a macro
variable containing the current REPOS Id AND keyid is a unique value
representing the User in an external source.

Because of XML (and HTML) parsing issues, certain "special characters"
(the ampersand & for example) must be properly encoded when present in
XML strings. SAS provides the htmlencode() datastep function for this
purpose.

There are cases where the 'keyid' variable can contain these special
characters which in the symbolic reference case mentioned above causes
an ERROR in XML parsing when the 'keyid' value is not encoded with the
htmlencode () function.


A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) for this issue is available at:

http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/e9_sbcs_prod_list.html#013560

For customers running SAS with Asian Language Support (DBCS), this
fix should be downloaded from:

http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/e9_dbcs_prod_list.html#013560

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) for this issue is available at:

A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) with Asian Language Support (DBCS) for this issue is available at :