"&" symbol in xml

[Peter Hoffmann]

Matthew east schrieb:
> Hi there,
> 
> I was editing the userguide today and suddenly found that yelp wouldn't
> open it. I consulted the relevant paragraphs it didn't like, and found
> that it was the words "Sound & Video section of the menu" that caused
> the problem, specifically the symbol &. Is there any way that the &
> symbol can be properly used? Is this a bug in yelp or just my error? It
> would be nice to be able to use it, given that this is in fact the
> symbol used in the gnome menu.
> 

The ampersand character (&) is a special character and must be escapet
as "&".

For more info see:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#syntax


Peter