Ampersand is a reserved character in XML. See the XML Recommendation for a description of how Entity References and Character References work; to express an ampersand as a character, you must escape it as '#', 'or '' or via the predefined entity '&'.
(Or, in text content of elements, you can use a <![CDATA[]]> section. But I strongly recommend against going that route; in the long run it will almost certainly cause you more trouble than it will solve.) ______________________________________ "... Three things see no end: A loop with exit code done wrong, A semaphore untested, And the change that comes along. ..." -- "Threes" Rev 1.1 - Duane Elms / Leslie Fish ( http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/threes-rev-11.html)