NOt able to parse "&"

Question

My xml consist of words in few different language, Latin words etc. am able to parse these Latin characters and all except the fact that I am not able parse only "&"

This is what I am getting @gdb

Entity: line 223: parser error : > xmlParseEntityRef: no name Ull > always be mine 4 now & 4ever.Ull > always be mine 4 u r my treasure.Ull

oluies · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-09T11:58:27.860

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The ampersand is treated as a special character because it is a special character. Ampersand is the start of an entity.

Ampersand ("&") needs to be written as & amp; or be contained in a CDATA section

See this link on how to escape XML strings in Objective-C

edited Jul 09 '10 at 11:58

answered Jun 02 '10 at 06:00

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can u let me know about CDATA secion,l'll bit thanks for reply – Shishir.bobby Jun 02 '10 at 06:04
I am not sure if the link provided really solved MY issue with the parser. As far as I understand the code in the "how to escape" link, it returns a non-escaped string from an escaped, correct? So you would pass it something like 'B&ampB' and it would return 'B&B'? I ask, because in my case I have an XML file, which is created by the user manually. So I guess I have to replace those ampersands before parsing by &amp, which is the opposite of the code provided. Is there also anything like that I could do? – renesteg Feb 20 '12 at 17:42
See the [Google Toolbox](http://code.google.com/p/google-toolbox-for-mac/source/browse/trunk/Foundation/GTMNSString%2BXML.h) or look here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/803676/encode-nsstring-for-xml-html – oluies Feb 20 '12 at 21:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 12 '13 at 14:09

I used this simple line of code in my case before parsing that xml:

cleaned = [original stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"&" withString:@"&amp;"];

I did use [NSString stringByDecodingHTMLEntities]; Just before that since my server returns messages with tags.

NOt able to parse "&"

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