It should be escaped as "&". Fortunately, there's a convnience
function that takes care of this for you:
>W $$SYMENC^MXMLUTL("Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing")
Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing
>
--- David Sommers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yep - it has to be escaped out (as it were). You can also cheat and
> replace & with +
>
> A great tool to determine if your XML is valid before throwing it
> into a
> parser is to just open it up in IE. It'll try to color-code and
> style
> your XML out, in doing so - it'll display any standard XML errors
> such
> as the &.
>
> /David.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Nancy
> E. Anthracite
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 5:47 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] XML Parsing problem
>
> I got this from 1/2 the way down this page
> http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=130932&redir=1
>
> See if this works:
>
> & or &
>
> On Monday 13 December 2004 04:49 pm, Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
> > I've come across a problem an XML using the MXMLDOM
> > module.
> >
> > The erroneous line is like this:
> >
> > <Field id="Type">Physician Assistants & Advanced
> > Practice Nuring</Field>
> >
> > The problem is the "&" character (I believe). The XML
> > parser sees this as a control character. I can't
> > reword the phrase, because I am matching for an entry
> > in the PERSON CLASS file that has this charcter in it.
> >
> > I think what is supposed to happen is that control
> > characters are put in some other way.
> >
> > Does anyone know how to do this? And will the parser
> > convert the code back into the above format when I
> > query to document, or will I need to do this manually?
> >
> > thanks
> > Kevin
> >
> >
> >
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