PM90924: After importing a Rose model, inequality symbols disappear from rich text Documentation

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APAR status

• Closed as user error.

Error description

• After migrating a model from IBM Rational Rose (Rose) to IBM
  Rational Software Architect (RSA), the inequality signs in the
  documentation section in the Rose model are not visible in the
  rich text editor of the 'Documentation' tab.
  
  The following steps reproduce the problem:
  
  1. Open Rose and add a class to the model
  2. Add the following to the class's documentation (without the
  quotation marks):
  
  'This is some documentation with the equal sign (=), and
  inequality symbols. For example: greater than: ?, ?b?bold?/b? ,
  less than/greater than: ??, less than/equal to: ?= , and greater
  than/equal to: ?='
  
  3. Save the changes and import the Rose model into RSA with the
  rich text enabled in RSA
  4. Check class's Properties ? Documentation tab
  
  Expected Result: The (rich text) 'Documentation' looks as it
  does in the Rose model
  
  Actual Result: You will see the following (without the quotation
  marks):
  
  'This is some documentation with the equal sign (=), and
  inequality symbols. For example: greater than: ?, bold , less
  than/greater than: , less than/equal to: = , and greater
  than/equal to: ?='
  
  (NOTE: In the RSA rich text editor, the word 'bold' appears in
  boldface font, as expected.)
  
  --?The 'less than' symbols disappear (the 'greater than' symbol
  is also gone, when it comes after the 'less than' symbol, as in
  '??')
  
  Workaround:
  --?Type the inequality directly symbols into the rich text
  'Documentation' tab in model.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

Comments

• The functionality is, in fact, working as designed. The Java
  HTML parser treats "?" and "?" as start and end of HTML
  tags.
  
  If the user wants to put these characters literally in their
  documentation, "?lt;" should be used instead of "?", and
  "?gt;" for "?".
  So for the below mentioned documentation:
  "This is some documentation with the equal sign (=), and
  inequality symbols. For example: greater than: ?,
  ?b?bold?/b? , less than/greater than: ??, less than/equal
  to: ?= , and greater than/equal to: ?=" the user should
  enter "This is some documentation with the equal sign (=),
  and inequality symbols. For example: greater than: ?gt;,
  ?b?bold?/b? , less than/greater than: ?lt;?gt;, less
  than/equal to: ?lt;= , and greater than/equal to: ?gt;=".
  Please note that text "?b?bold?/b?" doesn't change, since
  ?b? is meant to used as a HTML tag by the user.
  

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Fix information

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