XML Not well formed in Firefox getting xml response from server - ajax

Question

I am using jQGrid Latest version in my project.following is complete configuration that i configured.
jQuery("#list").jqGrid( {
url : 'Link.do?method=findAllBrand',
mtype : 'GET',
height : 350,
datatype : "xml",
colNames : [ 'Name' ],
colModel : [ {
name : 'name',
index : 'name',
width : 620
} ],
rowNum : 10,
rowList : [ 10, 20, 30 ],
sortname : 'id',
sortorder : "desc",
viewrecords : true,
multiselect : true,
imgpath : 'themes/base/images',
caption : "Brand (s) Summary Grid",
pager : $('#pager'),
cache : false,
onSelectRow : function(id) {
}
});
I am getting following data in form of xml from server :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><rows><page>1</page><total>1</total><records>4</records><row id="BRD00003"><cell>Blanco</cell></row><row id="BRD00001"><cell>Bosch</cell></row><row id="BRD00004"><cell>Chef</cell></row><row id="BRD00002"><cell>F&P</cell></row></rows>
i know that in the last cell of last row is creating problem , because it contains & char which has special meaning in the xml. however i have escaped sequence the whole xml using Apache commons lang library using below function.
toXml = StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml(toXml);
and the resulting string is
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><rows><page>1</page><total>1</total><records>4</records><row id="BRD00003"><cell>Blanco</cell></row><row id="BRD00001"><cell>Bosch</cell></row><row id="BRD00004"><cell>Chef</cell></row><row id="BRD00002"><cell>F&P</cell></row></rows>
still i got the same error in Mozilla firefox latest version and in chrome , ie 7,8 also.
I have to show you this special characters in the gird so how can i solve this problem ?
Thank You
Mihir Parekh

Answer 1

i am generating the xml from server side.
Then escape each text node and each attribute value separately, it's all simple as that.

Answer 2

I recommend you to use JSON format instead of XML whenever it's possible.
If you do need to use XML and you need to place some general values in XML you need use CDATA construct (<![CDATA["some common text"]]>).
Additionally I would recommend you to use autoencode: true as your standard jqGrid options. In the case you will be able to place any text in jqGrid cells. jqGrid will do the encoding of all characters which have special meaning for HTML.