Hello everyone, I read input from user, then via XML send it to DB. thing is that when user enters "&" sign XML is no more well-formatted, what causes error. Does anyone has any suggestions on how to remove & sign from user input, considering that data entered by users can be multilingual, that is "ö" character is being converted to some unicode "ê" character which also contains "&" sign, but this one doesn't cause any problem - any other user entered "&" signs should be removed or should be translated to unicode & "!". Your help will be appreciated. Muhammed Mamedov