Re: [Exist-open] Xquery help on entities

[Michael B. <mbe...@mb...>]

Kevin Benson wrote:

> I have some xml documents in eXist, with one of the documents having
> this element:
>
> <title>Positions & proper motions of radio stars ; (Argyle+,
1996) -Carlsberg optical positions of ICRF >sources and differences, radio
minus optical</title>
>
[...]

Surely not. You can't have an unescaped ampersand in XML text content. The
error message is caused by the parser hitting the & and then expecting the
next token sequence to parse as a reference, which it of course doesn't. If
you encode as &amp; the problem should go away (unless you want to match on
the ampersand, in which case the same precautions apply).

Michael Beddow