What's the meaning of '&' and '!' before property name?

Question

I am reading WIX script written by others. There are some code really confuses me.

    <Custom Action='UnLoadSchedulerPerfCounters' After='InstallInitialize'><![CDATA[(Installed) AND (!Scheduler = 3)]]></Custom>

    <Custom Action='RollbackSchedulerPerfCounters' After='WriteRegistryValues'><![CDATA[(&Scheduler = 3)]]></Custom>

So, what's the difference between "!Scheduler" and "&Scheduler"? Is any special meaning when property is prefix-ed by "&" or "!"?

Answer 1

From http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson5.php#5.3:

Prepending some special characters to the names will give them extra meaning:

%     environment variable (name is case insensitive)
$     action state of component
?     installed state of component
&     action state of feature
!     installed state of feature

The last four can return the following integer values:

-1   no action to be taken
1    advertised (only for components)
2    not present
3    on the local computer
4    run from the source

Answer 2

Those are operators on the Windows Installer condition syntax. See this MSI SDK documentation for a complete list: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368012.aspx.