# Mediator Problem with property with ':' char

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/mediator-problem-with-property-with-char/58634>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Former-Crossvision-Products, Service-Orchestrator\
**Created:** [September 10, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/mediator-problem-with-property-with-char/58634 "2004-09-10T20:36:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Michelangelo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Michelangelo](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Michelangelo)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/mediator-problem-with-property-with-char/58634/1 "2004-09-10T20:36:51Z")

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Hi Mediators,  
  
I have the following sequence:  
  
_01\<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?\>  
02  
03   
04   
05   
06   
07   
08   
09   
10   
11_  
  
  
unfortunately MEDIATOR tells me that the line #7 is bad with the err msg: ☹  
**…Extra illegal tokens: ‘:’, ‘java.io.IOException’…**  
  
infact, _xbd.error.text_ contains ‘:’ char 2times…  
  
of course, the line #5 works fine (value of _xbd.error.line_ is 16). 🙂  
  
can you help me?  
tnx  
Michelangelo  
  
  
 Michelangelo Serpico  
 Software AG  
  
 +39 02950011.1  
 +39 3488205068  
[michelangelo.serpico@softwareag.com](mailto:michelangelo.serpico@softwareag.com)

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**Author:** ![Mike\_Bernat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Mike\_Bernat](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Mike_Bernat)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 8:10pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/mediator-problem-with-property-with-char/58634/2 "2004-09-14T20:10:02Z")

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Helli Michelangelo,  
  
In general, you need to include the property in single quotes if you want its value to be treated as a literal, e.g.  
 value=“{‘$xbd.error.text’}”  
  
I have tried to reproduce this with just “:” and it works OK. I suspect there is something more in the xbd.error.text property than the “:” that is causing the problem. Can you insert a “SagLogger” step at the start of the sequence and post the resulting record that includes the original property values?  
  
Best regards,  
 Mike

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/mediator-problem-with-property-with-char/58634/3 "2021-04-02T14:39:22Z")

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