[BUG]-diamond of parsering xml result

ERROR

Parse error for this part of the blast XML document: Error on line 1042356: The entity name must immediately follow the ‘&’ in the entity reference.

When I use diamond replacing blast to search NR database, the result with xml format can’t be parsed by blast2GO. Aftering see this page, I got it soloved.

& and “&”

why use “&” to replace “&”?
when you type & in a markdown or html file, you will find it turning into & directly.
If you want type &, you need add a \ in front it, like: "\&".

<”xxx”> in line

If your xml has line contain "<word>" but that is not a xml format tag, so that there is no "<\word>" paried with it. then error occurs.

<in line

if there is <in line and > in somewhere behind in the same line,(for fasta format, that is very common), it also occur error.