Ampersand in app_name not allowed

Question

My strings.xml looks like this:

<string name = "app_name>A & B</string>

Eclipse is throwing an error: "The entity name must immediately follow the & in the entity reference". What can be the reason?

@Madhur: The error still comes after making the change as suggested by you. — webgenius, Jul 08 '14 at 07:41
possible duplicate of [How can I write character & in android strings.xml](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3053062/how-can-i-write-character-in-android-strings-xml) — gnuanu, Jul 08 '14 at 10:11

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 08 '14 at 07:40

7

Use

<string name = "app_name>A &amp; B</string>

answered Jul 08 '14 at 07:40

Adam Radomski

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 08 '14 at 07:40

2

For special character I normally use the Unicode definition, so for the '&' use \u0026

Or Encoding it to &

i.e. Use

<string name = "app_name>A &amp; B</string>

For more info see this link

answered Jul 08 '14 at 07:40

Giru Bhai

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 08 '14 at 07:54

1

& is a special character in xml, it indicates start of an entity.So use "&" instead of &(add "amp;" to &)

answered Jul 08 '14 at 07:54

NIPHIN

gnuanu · Answer 4 · 2014-07-08T09:50:44.450

0

You must encode the '&' symbol with & while you are using it inside XML files.

This should work fine

<string name = "app_name>A &amp; B</string>

edited Jul 08 '14 at 09:50

answered Jul 08 '14 at 07:41

gnuanu

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