I suspect I’ve run into a rare XML entity/Cheetah conversion bug. 

I have a parameter definition like

<param name="schedule" type="text" value="6,3,75;6,3,75;5,3,75;5,3,75;6,2,75;6,2,75;5,2,75;5,2,75" label="Parameter Schedule" size="60"/>

I also am creating a configfile using

<configfile name="iniFile">

…

paramSchedule=${schedule}

…

</configfile>

The file that gets created has

…

paramSchedule=6,3,75X6,3,75X5,3,75X5,3,75X6,2,75X6,2,75X5,2,75X5,2,75

…

i.e. the ‘;’ character gets converted to X.  I suspect that this is an XML parsing issue (trying to interpret ‘;’ as marking an entity resolution?) but the default value get displayed correctly in the Galaxy UI so it might not be so simple as this.  I can’t see how Cheetah is converting ‘;’ to ‘X’ but maybe that’s it.

I’m planning on hacking around this, but wanted to post to the list to see if anyone else has seen this or has quick recommendations.

Jon