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Re: The '&' Problem

• To: asim <qazi@a...>
• Subject: Re: The '&' Problem
• From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@g...>
• Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 09:47:33 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <002401c3a02f$c0c8ad70$b400a8c0@asim>
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asim wrote:

> Hi All
>     I querry a database table and make a XML packet dont know which 
> field can contain '&' .. what should i do so that my parser should not 
> break will parsing ....
>  
> Qazi Asim

Escape it as "&amp;". And do not forger "<" ("&lt;") and possible issues 
with non-ASCII characters in case you're not using ASCII.

Julian

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