Ignoring ampersand(&) as a special character in xml

[Thierry Lam]

Let's say I have the following xml tag:

<para role="source">a & b</para>

Currently, an xml parser will treat & as a special character. Does
anyone know the special characters to use around the ampersand so that
the xml parser can treat "a & b" as a whole value?

Thanks
Thierry

[Chris]

Thierry Lam wrote:

Let's say I have the following xml tag:

<para role="source">a & b</para>

Currently, an xml parser will treat & as a special character. Does
anyone know the special characters to use around the ampersand so that
the xml parser can treat "a & b" as a whole value?

Thanks
Thierry

Simple use the XML Entity for & which is &amp;

<para role="source">a &amp; b</para>

You could use CDATA sections too but they seem to have the effect on
people ignoring that the containing strings are actually literary what
they seem (in this case "a & b") and not what they really are ("a &amp;
b")...

chris

[Chris]

Chris wrote:

Thierry Lam wrote:

Let's say I have the following xml tag:

<para role="source">a & b</para>

Currently, an xml parser will treat & as a special character. Does
anyone know the special characters to use around the ampersand so that
the xml parser can treat "a & b" as a whole value?

Thanks
Thierry

Simple use the XML Entity for & which is &amp;

<para role="source">a &amp; b</para>

You could use CDATA sections too but they seem to have the effect on
people ignoring that the containing strings are actually literary what
they seem (in this case "a & b") and not what they really are ("a &amp;
b")...

should read before posting..., of course the other way round:
some people seem to ignore the visible "a & b" is not the actual "a
&amp; b" in CDATA sections...

chris