Is there an escape character for a double quote in xml? I want to write a tag like:
<parameter name="Quote = " ">
but if I put ", then that means string has ended. I need something like this (c++):
printf("Quote = \" ");
Is there a character to write before the double quote to escape it?
Others have answered in terms of how to handle the specific escaping in this case.
A broader answer is not to try to do it yourself. Use an XML API - there are plenty available for just about every modern programming platform in existence.
XML APIs will handle things like this for you automatically, making it a lot harder to go wrong. Unless you're writing an XML API yourself, you should rarely need to worry about the details like this.
No there isn't an escape character as such, instead you can use " or even <![CDATA["]]> to represent the " character.
You can try using the a backslash followed by a "u" and then the unicode value for the character, for example the unicode value of the double quote is
" -> U+0022
Therefore if you were setting it as part of text in XML in android it would look something like this,
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:text=" \u0022 Showing double quotes \u0022 "/>
This would produce a text in the TextView roughly something like this
" Showing double quotes "
You can find unicode of most symbols and characters here www.unicode-table.com/en