XML Help Needed

[Souleh]

I have designed an XML generator as part of code output for one of my programs but I have come accross a small problem.

The '&' being a special character is killing my code.

I have &'s in the names of the data im exporting so it would look like this-

<Example>Name&Error</Example>

The & is being flagged as special and stating it expects to see a ';'

Is there any way of turning this special char recognition off or any form of workaround?
The & cannot be removed from the name as it is SAP Role names and the specific name is needed

Many thanks

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[shine]

In your code you'll need to convert any special characters to into their entity references before writing the XML:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_entity_reference

 

[Souleh]

Search and replace for & --> & #38; then?

Edit: Works, many thanks!