Re: Input '&' symbol causing SystemID Unknown error

[email protected] Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:07:47 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.text.xml.xalan.java.user
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Ampersand is a reserved character in XML. See the XML Recommendation for a 
description of how Entity References and Character References work; to 
express an ampersand as a character, you must escape it as '&#35;', 'or 
&#x27;' or via the predefined entity  '&amp;'. 

(Or, in text content of elements, you can use a <![CDATA[]]> section. But 
I strongly recommend against going that route; in the long run it will 
almost certainly cause you more trouble than it will solve.)


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