Problem with saving links in XML file 1

[Delameko]

Hi, I hope you can help me.

I'm try to save a link to my xml file. The link is like this:

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/d...me=yes&more_nodeId1=133951&contentPK=16627627

When I try and load the XML file I get the following error:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: [URL unfurl="true"]http://content.thisis.co.uk/EditorChoice/comments.xml[/URL]
Line Number 9, Column 86:
		<link>[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=133942&command=displayContent&sourceNode=229135&home=yes&more_nodeId1=133951&contentPK=16627627</link>[/URL]
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Its actually pointing to this bit: ...&command=display... (to the = sign after command)


Any ideas? Thanks.

 

[tsuji]

[1] If you are editing the source file by hand, you can make sure to let the parser knowing the text are character data. Like this. (I shorten it to only 2 query strings to avoid wide-post!)
[tt]
<link>

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=133942

[red]&amp;[/red]command=displayContent[red]&smp;[/red][green]...[/green]</link>
[/tt]
[2] If you are building the source via automation application, you write the text by first replacing "&" (negative look-ahead: not following by "amp;") by "&amp;" in the language of regular expression.

 

[tsuji]

[1'] My original intention is to advise in case you edit the source manually, use <![CDATA[...]]> tagging to let the parser know it contains character data. In this form, no need to escape the ampersand (&). It is this.
[tt]
<link>[blue]<![CDATA[[/blue]

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=133942&command=displayContent&...

[blue]]]>[/blue]</link>
[/tt]
When typing, I was just carried away into escaping the ampersand!

(Note: the forum will auto modify the display of ampersand (&) in the hyperlink. What you see amp; or ; in the display are in fact artifacts.)

 

[Delameko]

Thank you Tsuji, that got me on the right track.