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Posted - 2005-06-28 : 10:40:05

Manish writes "Follwing is my XML String which i pass to stored procedure to Select & update to database
<project projectno = "2">
<generalcondition>
<tgc_no>0</tgc_no>
<tgc_generalconditionno>1</tgc_generalconditionno>
<unitcode></unitcode> <tgc_unitprice>100</tgc_unitprice>
<tgc_quantity>100</tgc_quantity> <tgc_amount>1000</tgc_amount>
<tgc_desc>New Description & Cond</tgc_desc>
<tgc_comments>Comments</tgc_comments>
</generalcondition>
</project>

i get error as
XML parsing error: Whitespace is not allowed at this location.

But if i remove & sign from tgc_desc attributes it works fine

Thanks"

Arnold Fribble
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1961 Posts

Posted - 2005-06-28 : 11:11:30

The ampersand character in XML starts a character reference or entity reference. To include an ampersand in a piece of text or an attribute value you need to escape it. Use & that's the five characters:
&
a
m
p
;

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