How do I escape ampersands in XML so they are rendered as entities in HTML?
I have some XML text that I wish to render in an HTML page. This text contains an ampersand, which I want to render in its entity representation: &
.
How do I escape this ampersand in the source XML? I tried &
, but this is decoded as the actual ampersand character (&
), which is invalid in HTML.
So I want to escape it in such a way that it will be rendered as &
in the web page that uses the XML output.