Writing & into XML file

[manoj kumar jena]

Hi Friends,
i am writing data from database into an XML.Then, i am retrieving those data from XML to view on jsp.
but when i am writing the data into XML file i am getting an exception(related to XML format) because my data contains '&' symbol (for example javaranc & rocks).it says "not well-formed".

so how to write these kind of data(which contains special characters like &) into XML?

[William Brogden]

Characters that have special meaning in XML have to be "escaped" to pass XML parsers.

You might as well get familiar with the authoritative XML specification at W3C. Look for the section titled:

2.4 Character Data and Markup

Bill

[Paul Clapham]

And the lazy person's way to escape them is to put every text node into a CDATA section. (That's covered in the XML spec.)