How to show/generate the special character “&” in xml file?

Question

I have a spreadsheet like this:

It contains a special character "&". After I converted it to xml, it's rendered as an entity name .

Here is the xml:

How to show/generate the special character "&" in xml file?

Thanks very much

Answer 1

You can't have the & sign in XML. It's not a properly formatted XML - that's why it's replaced with the & symbol.

Another option you have is using CDATA like this:

<![CDATA[SAILOR T&T]]>

Answer 2

There is a detail description of predefined entity of XML in http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_syntax.asp .