Parse XML special characters?

Question

From the last 2 days I am searching that how to parse XML with special chars like !@#$%^&*()\':;\", but I am not getting anything sufficient that how to implement it.. Can a

Answer 1

1. A valid XML file should not have any of these characters "&", "<", ">" or "@". It should instead have the named entities "&", "<", ">", "®", """, "&apos", etc:

xml parsing with "&", "®", but still getting errors

2. If the XML file is valid then parsing (using "android.util.XML", I presume), should "just work".

These links might also help:

• Parsing invalid ampersands with Android's XmlPullParsers

• http://developer.android.com/reference/org/xmlpull/v1/XmlPullParser.html