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Asked: 2026-05-12T07:17:54+00:00

I have a question for XML document special chars, I’m using & in on

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I have a question for XML document special chars, I’m using & in on of the value of the item in XML and TXMLDoc Delphi parser is complaining about it.

I search for some XML parsing options but none of them concerning special chars,

any ideas?

Example:

    <Configuration>
      <Configuration_item>  
        <view_name value="some view & name"/>

....

Regards,
Mika

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use &amp; to represent an ampersand. The reason you need to do this is because & is a special character in XML – specifically, the character used to indicate the start of an XML entity, which is used to specify characters in the content that would (ironically) otherwise be special/complex characters.

    <view_name value="some view &amp; name"/>

    Other common XML entities:

    • ” is &quot;
    • < is &lt; (short for less-than)

    • is &gt; (short for greater-than)

    For more info:

    http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/01/31/qanda.html

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