bad character error that I can't make sense of

[lawrence]

I'm a bit new to XML. I want to get data out of my database and wrap
it in the database field names and let other pieces of software
process it as XML. I'm at a very early stage of this process. I get a
lot of error messages that I don't understand. Below you'll see the
error that IE prints out. Beneath that you'll see the entry that's
getting the error. Something about characters but I can't figure out
what. Am I suppose to escape something?

The page starts:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes" ?>

And all the items are wrapped in this channel tag:

<channel>





&The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error
and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.


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A semi colon character was expected. Error processing resource
'http://publicpen.com/andrew/rss/exports.xml'. Line 378, Position 41

<cbModifier03>pageId=1&pageEventStart[]=putCommentInDs</cbModifier03>
----------------------------------------^

















<item>
<cbId>5</cbId>
<cbHeadline></cbHeadline>
<cbMainContent></cbMainContent>
<cbDateCreated>1084385419</cbDateCreated>
<cbWhichType>siteVisitationLog</cbWhichType>
<cbUserName>andrew</cbUserName>
<cbPassword></cbPassword>
<cbIsLoggedIn></cbIsLoggedIn>
<cbDatesModified></cbDatesModified>
<cbLastModified>1084385419</cbLastModified>
<cbDatesWhenViewed></cbDatesWhenViewed>
<cbLinksToWhatUrl></cbLinksToWhatUrl>
<cbOOA></cbOOA>
<cbSection></cbSection>
<cbKeywords></cbKeywords>
<cbBelongsToWhichWebsite>.andrew.com</cbBelongsToWhichWebsite>
<cbBelongsToWhichPage></cbBelongsToWhichPage>
<cbUserSecurityLevel>basic</cbUserSecurityLevel>
<cbNavTextDifFromHeadline></cbNavTextDifFromHeadline>
<cbNavText></cbNavText>
<cbNavOOA>0</cbNavOOA>
<cbNavSection>0</cbNavSection>
<cbTemplate></cbTemplate>
<cbSpecialOverrideCSSClass></cbSpecialOverrideCSSClass>
<cbExpirationDate>0</cbExpirationDate>
<cbModifier01>http://www.publicpen.com/andrew/index.php</cbModifier01>
<cbModifier02>24.125.40.102</cbModifier02>
<cbModifier03>pageId=1&pageEventStart[]=putCommentInDs</cbModifier03>
<cbModifier04>www.publicpen.com</cbModifier04>
<cbModifier05>Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98;
DigExt)</cbModifier05>
<cbModifier06></cbModifier06>
<cbModifier07></cbModifier07>
<cbModifier08></cbModifier08>
<cbModifier09></cbModifier09>
<cbModifier10></cbModifier10>
<cbModifier11></cbModifier11>
<cbModifier12></cbModifier12>
<cbModifier13></cbModifier13>
<cbModifier14></cbModifier14>
<cbModifier15></cbModifier15>
<cbModifier16></cbModifier16>
<cbModifier17></cbModifier17>
<cbModifier18></cbModifier18>
<cbPublicName></cbPublicName>
<cbEmail></cbEmail>
<cbUrl></cbUrl>
<cbWhenLoggedIn>0</cbWhenLoggedIn>
<cbBelongsToWho>andrew</cbBelongsToWho>
<cbNumTimesViewed>0</cbNumTimesViewed>
<cbNumTimesViewedLast24>0</cbNumTimesViewedLast24>
<cbNumTimesViewedLastWeek>0</cbNumTimesViewedLastWeek>
<cbNumTimesViewedLastMonth>0</cbNumTimesViewedLastMonth>
<cbIsFrontPage></cbIsFrontPage>
<cbPagePassword>b9e4c3fc1f26c35adb8c25504d608b1c</cbPagePassword>
<cbUserAddress></cbUserAddress>
<cbModifier19></cbModifier19>
<cbModifier20></cbModifier20>
<cbModifier21></cbModifier21>
<cbModifier22></cbModifier22>
<cbModifier23></cbModifier23>
<cbModifier24></cbModifier24>
<cbStyle></cbStyle>
<cbAllowComments>y</cbAllowComments>
<cbIsRoughDraft></cbIsRoughDraft>
<cbHowManyEntriesShouldWeListOnThisPage>40</cbHowManyEntriesShouldWeListOnThisPage>
<cbModifier25></cbModifier25>
<cbModifier26></cbModifier26>
<cbModifier27></cbModifier27>
<cbModifier28></cbModifier28>
<cbModifier29></cbModifier29>
<cbModifier30></cbModifier30>
<cbModifier31></cbModifier31>
<cbModifier32></cbModifier32>
<cbModifier33></cbModifier33>
<cbModifier34></cbModifier34>
<cbModifier35></cbModifier35>
<cbModifier36></cbModifier36>
<cbIsDefault></cbIsDefault>
<cbModifier37>0</cbModifier37>
<cbModifier38>0</cbModifier38>
<cbStartDate>0</cbStartDate>
<cbEndDate>0</cbEndDate>
<cbBelongsToMasterPage>0</cbBelongsToMasterPage>
<cbBelongsToTopLevelMasterPage>0</cbBelongsToTopLevelMasterPage>
</item>

 

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* lawrence wrote in comp.text.xml:

&The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error
and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.


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A semi colon character was expected. Error processing resource
'http://publicpen.com/andrew/rss/exports.xml'. Line 378, Position 41

<cbModifier03>pageId=1&pageEventStart[]=putCommentInDs</cbModifier03>
----------------------------------------^

You must escape ampersands in text as &amp, i.e. that should be


<cbModifier03>pageId=1&amp;pageEventStart[]=putCommentInDs</cbModifier03>