how do I deal with special characters?

[Eric Mesa]

got this error: Error FODC0002 in
tag:trolltech.com,2007:QtXmlPatterns:QIODeviceVariable:src, at line 1,
column 23816: Expected '#' or '[a-zA-Z]', but got ' '

Traced it to that column and the offending character  was an ampersand
(&).  My program is grabbing titles from an API that could have any
character.  How do I deal with this?

thanks!
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