"Biju Varughese" <BijuVarughese@d...> wrote in message 
news:A2672DD1-06F0-49B5-B038-869DF959F2BA@m......
> Hello:
>
> I am working on an XML feed for news items. I have noticed that the
> generated XML file returns error if there are any special characters in the
> data. Eg: ampersand, latin charcters, french characters etc. In many of the
> cases I am mannually replacing these charcters with the corresponding hexa
> values. Could any one suggest a permanent solution for this. Could you please
> provide me some links which gives more information on this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Biju M Varughese

If you create you feed using a standard parser then this escaping will be taken 
care of automatically. If you build it up as a string then you'll need to escape 
the special characters by hand. There are only five
> escaped as &-g-t-;
< escaped as &-l-t-;
'  escaped as&-a-p-o-s-;
" escaped as &-q-u-o-t-;
& escaped as &-a-m-p-;

(remove the hyphens before use)

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