Using & in xml element

Hi Javaties
I have a doubt in xml.
Can we use & in a xml element i.e
<root>
<child&parent>Data</child&parent>
<root>

I would highly suspect that you cannot do that. But what's stopping you from trying it? You're going to feed some XML into an application to process it, right? Otherwise there's no point in creating the XML in the first place. See what happens when the app tries to process XML which looks like what you're proposing.

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