Using an ampersand in flying saucer

I get the error below when converting to PDF with flying saucer. I've removed the ampersand charector and it worked, so this seems to be the problem. How do I include ampersand's in my PDF documents? Thanks in advance.

ER开发者_JAVA技巧ROR: 'The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference.'

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Just replace & with &

NOTE:That won't work for filenames, just content.

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Flying saucer parses only valid xhtml. With XML you would have to define your & entity. However, I've stopped trying to use & and have started using:

&

That is your ampersand that will work with xhtml, and it will work with Flying saucer to get the ampersand into the PDF.

Useful Reference: http://www.elizabethcastro.com/html/extras/entities.html

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You need to escape any XML entities (gt, lt, quot, amp, apos). An easy and effective way to do this is by using the Apache Commons Lang library function StringEscapeUtils.escapeXML.

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I had also this problem, but I solved it by surrounding the conflict characters (like &) with the

<![CDATA['&']]>

notation. Hope it helps as well, because the previous answers did not work for me.