How to save entry in strings resources that contains special sign

Issue

In the below posted entry in the strings.xml, I would like to save a url and it includes & sign. this sign is not recognized...How to save the link as entry in strings.xml..the & sign is not recognized

url

    <string name="BASE_URL">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php? 
    action=query&format=json&list=search&srsearch=Trump</string>

Solution

Just replace each & with &

<string name="BASE_URL">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php? 
    action=query&amp;format=json&amp;list=search&amp;srsearch=Trump</string>

There are some other characters that can be replaced:

> -- >
< -- &lt;
" -- &quot;
' -- &apos;

Answered By - Jaime Suarez