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I want to create an xml file which have '&' in one of its text node. like 

<url>www.sample.com/where/values?firstvalue=1&secondvalue=2</url>

Now what I am getting is 

<url>www.sample.com/where/values?firstvalue=1&amp;secondvalue=2</url>

Could you please let me know how can I achieve that. I am attaching the url value to dom using contenturl.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(model.getDocURL()));

and I am parsing using following method

        DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc);
        transformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer();
        transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");    
        transformer.transform(source, result);
Mike
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    If you *serialise* the DOM in the first form, you will have a non well-formed XML document, and XML processors will be unable to read it. – Alohci Jan 19 '12 at 00:24
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    There is nothing wrong with `&` on your node; `&` is a reserved character and needs to be encoded on your XML output. If you read that string as XML (i.e., through a XML parser), everything will be fine. – Rubens Farias Jan 19 '12 at 00:31
  • Agreed. I don't know why you would want to create poorly formed xml. – Rob Marrowstone Jan 19 '12 at 00:59
  • Hi Guys, I am totaly agree with you that it would be a poorely formed XML but this is a management request and I can not do anything ... they want in that format so I am requesting that with you guys. – Mike Jan 19 '12 at 04:02

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I agree with Rubens Farias that you probably want to leave it as &amp; which is a correctly escaped ampersand. However this question deals with unescaping html characters:

Convert HTML Character Back to Text Using Java Standard Library

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thagorn
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Have you tried escaping the ampersand character as "...firstvalue=1\&#x0Dsecondvalue=2..." ?

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