android - string.xml parsing error

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i have made a string named info_data as follows

<string name="info_address">SVG Service Verlags GmbH & Co. KG\n
    Schwertfegerstra?e 1-3\n
    D-23556 L?beck\n
</string>

i am getting an xml error saying that

Multiple annotations found at this line: - The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference. - error: Error parsing XML: not well-formed (invalid token)

this error comes on the first line containing the &.

what is going wrong and how do i fix it.

thank you in advance.

Haphazard · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-26 12:21:15Z

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You can't use the & sign. Try & (I haven't tested it but it may work).

answered Apr 26, 2011 at 12:21

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Will Tate · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-26 12:30:13Z

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I believe you will need to change the & to &.

edited Apr 26, 2011 at 12:30

answered Apr 26, 2011 at 12:22

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Varun · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-26 12:22:05Z

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<string
        name="info_address">SVG Service Verlags GmbH &amp; Co. KG\n Schwertfegerstra?e 1-3\n
        D-23556 L?beck\n</string>

copy paste the code i have pasted. use this string use & instead of &

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sparksalot · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-26 12:24:38Z

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While other answers about the ampersand may be correct, I don't think its just that.

This should be of some use.

Where an attribute value is a string, double backslashes ('\') must be used to escape characters — for example, '\n' for a newline or '\uxxxx' for a Unicode character.

You have \n, which may need to be \\n in addition to the change to the &

answered Apr 26, 2011 at 12:24

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sparksalot Over a year ago

You should replace the \n with \\n, and put & in place of the &

user590849 Over a year ago

can't someone before you said the same thing. i gotta mark his answer because it came first.

sparksalot Over a year ago

Did you not also need to escape the newline?

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