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What does double encoding mean for XML? How does it happen?

April 26, 2017double encoding mean XML

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What does double encoding mean for XML? How does it happen?

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Sometimes text is XML encoded by a program in more than one context. Since the ampersand character “&” is used for XML encoding, when XML is doubly encoded, we see things like “&” or “>” If we can, we try to correct these double encodings back to single encodings so that the user interface displays readable text.