Using XML and ampersands 1

[markdt]

Hi People,

Ive got a slight problem. Im trying to display an xml document but some of the fields relate to customers. Of which some have "&" in their name.

It doesnt seem to like this and errors e.g.

A semi colon character was expected. Error processing resource 'file:///M:/Inetpub/

http://wwwroot/ptrack/ptracker.xml'.

Line 1054...

<CUSTOMER>H&H</CUSTOMER>
-------------^
PAN> <A1>06/10/2004</A1>
<QUOTED />
</PROJECT>
- <PROJECT>
<PNUM>420</PNUM>
<SALESMANNAME>N/A</SALESMANNAME>
<MANAGER>N/A</MANAGER>

Any help on this problem would be grately appreciated.

Thanks

 

[k5tm]

The ampersand must be escaped as [tt]&amp;[/tt] (ampersand a m p semicolon), so the creator of the XML-like document is not quite doing it correctly. The ampersand is used to start an entity reference and the semicolon terminates the name of the entity. The parser, seeing the ampersand, was looking for a semicolon so that it could then evaluate the entity reference.

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com