> Although the "&" is entered as "&" in xml it is not transformed to 
> "&",pushed to the client as "&". Does anybody have any idea why it
> is so?

chances are, your output media-type is either "html" (which needs the
sequence since '&' is a reserved character) or "xml" (ditto, I think).
Either set it to "text" or use disable-output-escaping.

HTH

-Steve


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