Chris, In theory you can't have ampersands in XML because it assumes it is an entity. You can try using & but it shouldn't work because XML is not HTML. I will tell you my dirty trick for dealing with ampersands. Its a very boring trick.
TRICK #1: I replace every ampersand with something like: replace "&" with "#AMPERSAND#" in tXML This way, the XML routines work just fine and when presenting some data that may contain an ampersand, I replace the "#AMPERSAND#" back. This is a tedious trick but it works, there is also trick #2... TRICK #2: Add & to your XML entities with a declaration with <!ENTITY ... >. Those tricks really depend on the parser. IIRC LiveCode uses libxml2 which is a pretty good and standard parser. It may allow you to replace your & with & Cheers andre On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Chris Sheffield <cmsheffi...@me.com>wrote: > For all you xml experts out there. Hoping someone has the answer for > this... > > I need to use an ampersand character (&) in xml. It's in a company name > like Levi Strauss & Co. Everything I can find on the topic says to use the > entity reference "&", but this doesn't seem to be working. I just end > up with a blank space. Does anyone know how to make this work? > > I'm beginning to think I've run into a bug in the LiveCode xml parser. I'm > currently using the revXMLNodeContents() function. Should I be using some > other function? > > Thanks, > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- http://www.andregarzia.com -- All We Do Is Code. http://fon.nu -- minimalist url shortening service. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
