URL attribute and portal url error

[Vasek]

Hey,
I have a little problem with the URL attribute.
I have an extension with a field:

<field id="catalog_sw" xsi:type="AttributeURL" _delta="define">
<sql>catalog_sw</sql>
<default_value>https://itop.prod.cz/itop/pages/exec.php/manage/itop-sw-overview?exec_module=itop-portal-base&exec_page=index.php&portal_id=itop-portal</default_value>
<is_null_allowed>true</is_null_allowed>
<target>_blank</target>
</field>

It's giving me an error:
EntityRef: expecting ';'
Specifically between the word exec_page and =index.php
Is there any way around this?
Thank you.

[Stephen Abello]

Hi Vasek,

Did you try to escape the & character as & ?

Regards
Stephen

[Vasek]

Hey Stephen,
What do you mean? The link is written above. It is a link that is automatically generated by itop when I create a new brick.
https://itop.prod.cz/itop/pages/exec.php/manage/itop-sw-overview?exec_module=itop-portal-base&exec_page=index.php&portal_id=itop-portal

[Stephen Abello]

I understand, but in XML there's characters that you need to escape like <, > or &.
So your attribute declaration should look either like this:

<default_value>https://itop.prod.cz/itop/pages/exec.php/manage/itop-sw-overview?exec_module=itop-portal-base&amp;exec_page=index.php&amp;portal_id=itop-portal</default_value>

or this:

<default_value><![CDATA[https://itop.prod.cz/itop/pages/exec.php/manage/itop-sw-overview?exec_module=itop-portal-base&exec_page=index.php&portal_id=itop-portal]]></default_value>

[Vasek]

Thank you Stephen. Second XML example is perfect.