# Special character sending in company name while company incorporation

**URL:** <https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/special-character-sending-in-company-name-while-company-incorporation/678>\
**Category:** Incorporation\
**Created:** [October 15, 2021, 3:11pm UTC](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/special-character-sending-in-company-name-while-company-incorporation/678 "2021-10-15T15:11:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![vishnu\_sharma](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/73ab20/32.png) [@vishnu\_sharma](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/vishnu_sharma)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 3:11pm UTC](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/special-character-sending-in-company-name-while-company-incorporation/678/1 "2021-10-15T15:11:20Z")

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Hi,  
We have filed a company with & operator in the company name. We submitted this company using XML Form Submission. When we send company name with & operator like as XXXXXX & XXXXXX but it shows error while submitting xml. Then we replace & with html entity XXXXXX html entity of & XXXXXX and submit it to companies house. Now submission success full.

But when we get status and see company name register with html entity of &

Can you please suggest us how we can pass special character in company name ?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![snicholas](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/user_avatar/xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/snicholas/32/81_2.png) [@snicholas](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/snicholas)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2021, 6:40am UTC](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/special-character-sending-in-company-name-while-company-incorporation/678/2 "2021-10-18T06:40:03Z")

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Hello,

XML uses several characters in special ways as part of its markup, in particular the less-than symbol (\<), the greater-than symbol (\>), the double quotation mark ("), the apostrophe ('), and the ampersand (&). The XML Specification defines the five entity references for use in any well-formed XML document

Please send me an email to [snicholas@companieshouse.gov.uk](mailto:snicholas@companieshouse.gov.uk) and I will supply you with the relevant entity references.

SDN