[flexcoders] XML Entity won't parse inside MXML

[markdemich]

I have some embbeded XML inside an MXML file that I'm feeding to an outline.  
Some of my attributes need to have a quote character. It looks something like 
this

<mx:XMLList id="testXml">
<sample badattribute="&quot;ABC&quot;">
<test name="1"/>
<test name="2"/>
</sample>
<mx:XMLList>

This refuses to compile.

I even ran a test where I omitted, the badattribute from the xml and then in 
the code I did something like this,

testx...@test = '"ABC"';
trace(textXml.toXMLString())

and it printed it out correctly using &quot; as the quote character. 

Does anyone have a clue as to what's going on?

Thanks,
Mark