diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/XMLLogger.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/XMLLogger.java
index db045e8db..d4f403c70 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/XMLLogger.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/XMLLogger.java
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ public class XMLLogger
     /** {@inheritDoc} */
     public void fileStarted(AuditEvent aEvt)
     {
-        mWriter.println("<file name=\"" + aEvt.getFileName() + "\">");
+        mWriter.println("<file name=\"" + encode(aEvt.getFileName()) + "\">");
     }
 
     /** {@inheritDoc} */