Entity & in menu title breaks XHTML 1.0 Strict validation

[Florat]

If i use & in the menu title and use $my_menu = wp_get_nav_menu_items("my_menu") and loop with foreach($my_menu as $menu_item) and connect for building the Menu on $menu_item->title, then an & in the page title or on the menu navigation label is convertet to a simple &, witch returns the validation error "xmlParseEntityRef: no name".

[Steve_p]

Thanks for the report and sorry for taking so long to get back to you. This does not seem to be a bug. When using $menu_item->menu_title directly, you need to use esc_html() to encode HTML entities correctly.

[ocean90]

Replying to Steve_p:

When using $menu_item->menu_title directly, you need to use esc_html() to encode HTML entities correctly.

Or, as wp_nav_menu() and his Walker, do apply_filters( 'the_title', $menu_item->menu_title, $menu_item->ID ).