>  I am receiving the below error when parsing & within an 
>  element.  It was my belief that escaping the '&' would not 
>  pose this type of problem.  I haven't found an unambiguous 
>  explanation on the W3C site -- please expound on this. See 
>  element fragment below.
>  
>  
>  <Remarks>Hlth Ins &amp; Bks</Remarks> 
>  
>  SEVERE: **Parsing Fatal Error**
>    Line     : 53
>    URI      : null
>    Message  : The reference to entity "Bks" must end with the 
>  ';' delimiter.
>  org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The reference to entity "Bks" 
>  must end with the ';' delimiter.
>  

You are receiving this error when parsing the source &Bks with no
following semicolon. I don't know why the source that's being parsed
isn't the source that you think is being parsed - one would need to know
more about your application to discover that.

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@[...].com
work: Michael.Kay@[...].com 


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