Escape double quote character in XML

Question

Is there an escape character for a double quote in xml   I want to write a tag like    lt parameter name  Quote       gt    but if I put    then that means string has ended   I need something like this  c      printf  Quote            Is there a character to write before the double quote to escape it

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You can try using the a backslash followed by a "u" and then the unicode value for the character, for example the unicode value of the double quote is

" -> U+0022

Therefore if you were setting it as part of text in XML in android it would look something like this,

<TextView
     android:layout_width="match_parent"
     android:layout_height="match_parent"
     android:text=" \u0022 Showing double quotes \u0022 "/>

This would produce a text in the TextView roughly something like this

" Showing double quotes "

You can find unicode of most symbols and characters here www.unicode-table.com/en

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If you just need to try something out quickly  here s a quick and dirty solution  Use single quotes for the attribute value    lt parameter name  Quote       gt

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In C   you can use EscapeXML ATL API  This is the correct way of handling special chars

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Here are the common characters which need to be escaped in XML  starting with double quotes    double quotes     are escaped to  amp quot   ampersand   amp   is escaped to  amp amp   single quotes     are escaped to  amp apos   less than   lt   is escaped to  amp lt   greater than   gt   is escaped to  amp gt

User · Answer

No there isn t an escape character as such  instead you can use  amp quot  or even  lt   CDATA     gt  to represent the   character

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Others have answered in terms of how to handle the specific escaping in this case   A broader answer is not to try to do it yourself  Use an XML API - there are plenty available for just about every modern programming platform in existence   XML APIs will handle things like this for you automatically  making it a lot harder to go wrong  Unless you re writing an XML API yourself  you should rarely need to worry about the details like this

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Try this    amp quot

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New  improved answer to an old  frequently asked question     When to escape double quote in XML  Double quote     may appear without escaping    In XML textual content    lt NoEscapeNeeded gt He said   Don t quote me   lt  NoEscapeNeeded gt   In XML attributes delimited by single quotes        lt NoEscapeNeeded name  Pete  Maverick  Mitchell   gt    Note  switching to single quotes     also requires no escaping    lt NoEscapeNeeded name  Pete  Maverick  Mitchell   gt     Double quote     must be escaped    In XML attributes delimited by double quotes    lt EscapeNeeded name  Pete  amp quot Maverick amp quot  Mitchell   gt     Bottom line  Double quote     must be escaped as  amp quot  in XML only in very limited contexts

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