IRI validation, unexpected fail with encoded <> symbols

Question

I'm working with abdera in my project and it fails during parsing IRI address from content which contains already encoded < and > symbols: > <
The exception is: "org.apache.abdera.i18n.text.InvalidCharacterException: Invalid Character 0x3c(<)"

I'm confused since as I know these symbols (> <) are allowed in IRI format.

Could you please advise

EDIT: I'm using getHref() method of class org.apache.abdera.model.Link and the link is something like: http://blabla.com?xxx>yyy<zzz

Answer 1

It's parsing the symbol as an XML entity, so there are two solutions:

• URI Encode the IRI within getHref

  encode("http://blabla.com?xxx>yyy<zzz", "utf-8")
  

• Use another method rather than getHref

References

• XPath and XQuery Functions 3.1: iri-to-uri