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Asked: 2026-05-13T21:29:07+00:00

EDIT: I have edited my post… Working on a project (c#), I have a

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EDIT: I have edited my post…

Working on a project (c#), I have a string (password) within an XML file (app.config) which it value contains ‘&’ character. Suppose it some thing like this: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
  <configuration>
     <appSettings>
        <add key="MainConnectionString" value="Data Source=MyDataSource;InitialCatalog=MyInitialCatalog;User ID=MyUserID;Password=ynhub&59=k31!890" />
    </appSettings>
  </configuration>

But compiler shows me an error and a squiggly blue line appears under 59 indicates that ‘character 5 hexadecimal value is illegal in an XML name’

How can I remove this error?

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  1. Editorial Team

    XML starts special characters with an & character, i.e. the famous &amp;, &lt; (<) and &gt; (>).

    For this reason you cannot use & in your XML without converting it to &amp;. For example even in HTML links it’s not allowed (but still common) to write:

    <a href="foo.php?foo=bar&bar=baz">

    It has to be written as:

    <a href="foo.php?foo=bar&amp;bar=baz">

    Noone is doing it but HTML & XML specify it that way and especially XML is very strict about it.

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