XML Parsing of Multiline tags

I am using XML Parsing in one of my apps. I have not done this before but I observed something weird (or may be now) today. I am trying to locate a business on in my app and their googlemaps link is obviously big

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1001+Fannin+Street,+Houston,+TX&aq=0&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=36.999937,73.476563&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=1001+Fannin+St,+Houston,+Harris,+Texas+77002&z=16.

Every time I load using this link the app crashes. However if I change the link to something like :

http://maps.google.com/?saddr=0000+FM+0000+RD+Houston+TX+77000

the app load开发者_如何学JAVAs perfectly and works perfect.

I know this is not a problem in my app as I am using this just for reference to something else and not loading the addr in google maps app (as this works with the big link). So I am concluding that there is something wrong in the way I am writing it in my XML.

Please do not direct me to any tools and stuff that shorten the link etc. as I dont want to get in to that. I am sure that I am messing up somewhere in my basics so if some1 tells me what are the basics behind this.

Thank you,

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Well if the top link is in XML and hasn't had its ampersands escaped you'll not have well formed XML.

& should be escaped as &