XML and the & character

Question

I need to pass the & character inside an XML element, but its not liking it, here is a code sample:

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
XmlElement batch = doc.CreateElement("Batch");
string item = "<field>http://mylink.com/page.aspx?id=1&disp=2</field>"
batch.InnerXml = item;

Its absolutely crucial I put this link inside, so does anyone know how to get around this?

Thank you

Answer 1

You need to escape it as &.