Use of '&' in element of XML Document

[Paul Grosso]

At 18:05 1999 07 27 -0400, John E. Simpson wrote:
>At 01:17 PM 07/27/1999 -0700, Mallikarjuna Sangappa wrote:
>>How should the DTD be written to use & for an element
>>in the XML Document?
>>
>>For example,
>>
>><!ELEMENT COMPANY_NAME (#PCDATA)>
>>
>><COMPANY_NAME>J & W AUTO BODY INC</COMPANY_NAME> does
>>not become a well formed XML Document.
>
>Include an entity declaration in the DTD, e.g.:
>	<!ENTITY amp "&x0026;" >

You cannot redeclare &amp; which is one of XML's predefined
entities [1].  Just use &amp; in place of &--no declaration
is necessary.

paul

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-predefined-ent

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