XML from file with special letters

[gruberdominik]

Hello, I got the following in my XML Settings file: I want to read the value of the capture device from the xml file into a string variable. But due to the "&" the value = "...." doesnt seem to be a valid string. Is there a way to handle this? thx in advance, best regards dominik

[Michael Dunn]

& has to be escaped as &

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[led mike]

It's a good thing he came here to find that out. It's not like there is a freely available documented standard on the internet that contains that information...    wait :doh:

[gruberdominik]

Thanks for your answer! But is there a way to get a valid string without manually editing the original string and replacing every & with &? regards Dominik -- modified at 4:29 Friday 27th July, 2007

[Michael Dunn]

No because having an unescaped & is what makes it invalid XML.

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