Ampersand problem in JSP document

[Andreas Schildbach]

Hello everyone,
I am using the following fragment in a JSP document (the XML variant of 
JSP pages):

<href>myurl?param1=value1&amp;param2=value2</href>
The problem is, Tomcat sends this fragment to the browser as
<href>myurl?param1=value1&param2=value2</href>
which causes an XML parsing exception on the client.
Why is the &amp; character being unescaped? Since JSP documents are 
intended for outputting XML, why is the output violating the XML specs? 
I cross-checked with the &gt; and &lt; characters - same problem.

What can I do to prevent this?
I am using Tomcat 5.0.27.
Regards,
Andreas
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