Special characters in XML documents

Special characters such as &, >, < and " are control characters (meta characters) of the XML document. If these characters directly occur in the source data, misinterpretations may occur while importing the XML file. To be able to use these characters in the reference data, you need to replace them by the following entities (strings):

Characters

Entity

Characters

Entity

&

&amp;

"

&quot;

<

&lt;

>

&gt;

The table below shows the representation of special characters in XML files:

Characters

Entity

Characters

Entity

Characters

Entity

¡

&iexcl;

»

&raquo;

£

&pound;

¥

&yen;

|

&brvbar;

§

&sect;

©

&copy;

ª

&ordf;

«

&laquo;

®

&reg;

°

&deg;

±

&plusmn;

1

&sup1;

2

&sup2;

3

&sup3;

¼

&frac14;

½

&frac12;

¾

&frac34;

Ä

&Auml;

Ö

&Ouml;

Ü

&Uuml;

ä

&auml;

ö

&ouml;

ü

&uuml;

ß

&szlig;

χ

&times;

÷

&divide

È

&Egrave;

É

&Eacute;

Ê

&Ecirc;

Ë

&Euml;

è

&Egrave;

é

&Eacute;

ê

&Ecirc;

ë

&Euml;

Ø

&Oslach;

You can use any character by indicating its font code. To do this, specify the ASCII code of the relevant character in decimal notation as follows: &#<Decimal code of character>;.
For  example, to use the @ character, enter &#64; in the XML document.