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How to create a category with '&' in title using REST API.

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Srinivasarao A
(6●3●3) Jun 03 '14, 11:35 a.m.
 I am trying to create categories using REST API.
I am having issue when the category title has '&' like <title>Andaman & Nicobar Islands</title>.
If I use & in request XML, i am getting parsing error and if i use  '&amp;', i am getting Response code 400.

Any idea to fix this issue? Thanks in Advance.
 

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Donald Nong
Jun 04 '14, 3:22 a.m.
If you create such category via the web UI and the GET it using REST API, what is the RDF/XML representation of the title? Also, out of curiosity, how exactly did you create a category using REST API?

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Piotr Aniola
(3.7k●1●17●38) Jun 03 '14, 11:47 a.m.
Did you try to replace '&' with the corresponding entity? That would be &amp;

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Srinivasarao A
Jun 03 '14, 2:17 p.m.
I need to add title like <title>Andaman & Nicobar</title>. The character i need is & itself, not '&'.

Simon Washbrook
Jun 04 '14, 3:47 a.m.
Hi Srinivasarao, What Piotr is trying to say is that the ampersand character is a special character so you need to replace it with a HTML entity, which is a special encoding. You will notice that HTML entities all start with the ampersand character. See the link "http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp" and search for ampersand. You will need to use <title>Andaman &amp; Nicobar</title>to pass the ampersand character. Simon

Piotr Aniola
Jun 04 '14, 10:47 a.m.
Ok, I just noticed that when I typed the ampersand entity, the forum parsed it and rendered the actual ampersand instead. This obviously made my answer confusing, sorry. As Simon said, the entity should be & amp ; without the spaces.

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