Coding html inside of xml

[spook007]

I've got a ColdFusion template that places an html link inside of a xml file. I'm receiving the following error.

Next character must be ";" terminating reference to entity "timekeep".

The xml file that is created looks like this.

<user name = "test">
<menu title="File Manager">
<options url = "

http://www.aes.local/report.cfm?date=04/28/04&timekeep=chad">Report

1</options>
</menu>
</user>

The problem arises because of the & sign seperating date & timekeep. How can I include the url inside the xml file?

 

[fpmurphy]

try replacing the "&" with "&amp;"

 

[spook007]

Still causes the same problem... Just having the amper sand sign there causes parsing errors.

 

[mountainbiker]

spook-

try encoding the url

<user name = "test">
  <menu title="File Manager">
    <options url = "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.aes.local/report.cfm?date=04/28/04%26timekeep=chad">Report[/URL] 1</options>
  </menu>
</user>

also, this web site can also help:

http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm

if you don't want to hand encode, check coldfusion for an encoding function, or quickly do up one.

- mb