# Problem with xml, ampersands, and rotating dynamic text

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-with-xml-ampersands-and-rotating-dynamic-text/249153>\
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**Created:** [January 15, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-with-xml-ampersands-and-rotating-dynamic-text/249153 "2008-01-15T22:32:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![bishopia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@bishopia](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bishopia)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-with-xml-ampersands-and-rotating-dynamic-text/249153/1 "2008-01-15T22:32:51Z")

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hello! i’ve been coming here forever! excellent site. the best! here is my question…

i am pulling in a bit of text from xml with an ampersand in it (“John & Marilyn”). currently, its in the xml as & (but i’ve tried a number of things). now if i change the dynamic text field to html, it will display the ampersand properly but once i rotate it, it will not display anything. long story short, i need to…

- read in an ampersand from xml
- display it in a rotated in a dynamic text field

any thoughts?