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I have a string resource in my Android project, and I am using a CDATA section to embed my string in XML:
<string name="ackng"><![CDATA[
<html>
<body>
<h1>Acknowledgements</h1>
<p>
Senator Paul Wellstone's book, the Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the
compassionate agenda was an inspiration and an affirmation that you can be truthful
and honest as a politician, and compassionate and people-centred as a representative.
And as President Bill Clinton affirmed as he addressed the joint session of the
National Assembly on 26th August, 2000, thus:
“Every nation that has struggled to build democracy has found that success
depends on leaders who believe government exists to serve people, not the
other way around.”
</p>
<p>
Paul Wellstone's book was my inspiration for the launching of the compassionate
agenda in February 2002. Clinton's speech affirmed my convictions regarding the
sanctity of the democratic mandate to serve the people. I acknowledge the clarity of
their focus and the inspiration their works continue to provide.
</p>
</body></html>]]></string>
but eclispe is returning this error:
[2013-02-18 00:11:05 - MyPA] C:\Users\Daniel\workspace\MyPA\res\values\strings.xml:191: error: Apostrophe not preceded by \ (in <html>
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Apostrophes (') must be escaped using \. Try using \' instead of ' throughout the content of your String.
Also, you'll need to escape " in the following part with \":
“Every nation that has struggled to build democracy has found that success
depends on leaders who believe government exists to serve people, not the
other way around.”
String Formatting and Styling says
Escaping apostrophes and quotes
If you have an apostrophe or a quote in your string, you must either escape it or enclose the whole string in the other type of enclosing quotes. For example, here are some stings that do and don't work:
<string name="good_example">"This'll work"</string> <string name="good_example_2">This\'ll also work</string> <string name="bad_example">This doesn't work</string> <string name="bad_example_2">XML encodings don't work</string>
It looks like bad_example_2 describes your problem. Your best bet is to mimic good_example_2 by replacing both ' and " with \' and \" respectively as suggested by Raghav Sood.
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Use ' instead of apostrophe. The effect of character is in case of HTML output (I guess it is html) equal. So ' will be displayed as '.
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