Gnumeric is proving to be a handy application for statistically screening data.

Thank you very much for maintaining and developing it.

I happened to notice that using the "&" character in the name of a custom color map for the Color-Axis of an XYZ matrix prevented gnumeric from loading the workbook file.

When I typed something like

 $ gnumeric corrupted_workbook.gnumeric 

gnumeric complained with 

    (gnumeric:8740): XML-CRITICAL **: xmlParseEntityRef: no name


    ** (gnumeric:8740): WARNING **: Document likely damaged.

    ** (gnumeric:8740): WARNING **: leaking extensions

I uncompressed the workbook's XML with

    $ gunzip -c  tmp/corrupted_workbook.gnumeric > tmp/corrupted_workbook.xml

and found the corrupted line with

    $ xmlcopyeditor tmp/corrupted_workbook.xml

xmlcopyeditor said

    "Error a"Error at line 1866967, column 24: not well-formed (invalid token)"t line 1866967, column 24: not well-formed (invalid token)"

Line 1866967 contained

    <name>10% worst & best</name>

Column 24 holds the space character after the "&".

"10% worst & best" is the name I chose for a custom color map for the Color-Axis of an XYZ matrix.

The xml suggests to me that gnumeric considers this a so called "GogAxisColorMap".

I'm happy to report that replacing the "&" with "and" in the xml allowed gnumeric to load the file.

Maybe gnumeric's dialog for naming custom color maps should stop users from entering "&"s.

Thanks again,
Kingsley