How do I escape ampersands in XML so they are rendered as entities in HTML?

html xml escaping ampersand
AJM picture AJM · Aug 25, 2009 · Viewed 710.1k times · Source

I have some XML text that I wish to render in an HTML page. This text contains an ampersand, which I want to render in its entity representation: &.

How do I escape this ampersand in the source XML? I tried &, but this is decoded as the actual ampersand character (&), which is invalid in HTML.

So I want to escape it in such a way that it will be rendered as & in the web page that uses the XML output.

Answer

Wim ten Brink picture Wim ten Brink · Aug 25, 2009

When your XML contains &, this will result in the text &.

When you use that in HTML, that will be rendered as &.

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