Why can't RSS handle the ampersand?

Question

When I come across a broken RSS feed, the usual reason its all blown to pieces is because line 23 says \"Sanford & Sons.\"

The most confusing thing is the fact

Answer 1

Not sure if this helps but when I needed to solve this problem I used the numeric entity ref for an ampersand which is & Running this through the w3c validator passed so I guess it's ok to use this.

Cheers