Entity name must Immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference

Question

I created String array for the List of Bank names in string.xml file. When I'm using item name State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur as array item:

 <item>State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur</item>

I'm getting the following error: "The Entity name must Immediately follow the '&' in the entitiy reference"

Ideas on how to fix this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

The & symbol is an entity specifier in XML. If you want to put a literal ampersand in the XML, you will need to use &, which is the standard entity for an ampersand.