Hi,
I'm working with a xml file which fails when opening it in firefox. I'm getting an interpretation error. Its all because of the & symbol. When replacing it with& or removing it i get no error.
The problem is that the receiver of this xml document who prints it out on their homepage prints out & instead of &.
Can i do something or should they do something?
Thanks in advance.
In XML, & by itself is not allowed. You need to escape it to & or place it in a <![CDATA[]]> section.
Your reciever is treating XML as if it was normal text - they are not doing the right thing.
However, if they can't change, you can use <![CDATA[&]]> for the ampersand, though if they don't treat the data as XML, it will probably also cause them problems (but be more explicit).
A third option is to encode the & as its numeric character entity & - this may work if the reciever treats XML as HTML, but if they display it as &, they need to fix it on their end.
Try using the numeric representation for &, which is &, may be the receiver just does not understand the entities.
If this does not help, than it is definitely receiver's problem.
Firefox fails because & is the start of an entity in XML, and it expects the rest of an entity.
If you want to send the symbol &, you should replace & with its entity & or & or either send an unparsed string with CDATA