FTP adapter converting "&" to "&" while creating XML file.

Question

Hi
Using a BPEL process: I am fetching data from a DB and placing that data into a XML file on target. One of the fields (Type:Varchar2) contains "&" ampersand character.When this data is being put in an XML, the target file contains "&" instead of "&".
Please note: This seems to be happening only when the XML file is created on target; Because I can see that during the transformation as well as in the input variable to FTPPut adapter "&" is shown as "&" only (and not "&").
Please let me know in what way can we avoid this conversion of "&" to "&" on the target XML file".
Thanks for the help!
Regards,
Achal Mundra
Edited by: rameshchandra on Nov 5, 2012 11:53 PM

Answer 1

Thanks Anuj.
I actually needed that the target file should also be without any namespace references or XML headers(e.g. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>). We have got the following data as the input to the FTP adapter :
+<TempStringToRemoveNS_Var>+
+<RadiantDocument CreationSource="CompanyName" CreationTimestamp="2012-11-06T05:12:39.009-08:00" Name="Org Hierarchy Import" Version="1.8">+
+<OrgHierarchyList>+
+<OrgHierarchy Name="ABC" LongName="NewLongName" ParentOrgHierarchyName="XYZ" OrgHierarchyLevelName="Region"/>+
+</OrgHierarchyList>+
+</RadiantDocument>+
+</TempStringToRemoveNS_Var>+
We need the target XML file to have data exactly as below:
+<RadiantDocument Name="Org Hierarchy Import" CreationSource="CompanyName" CreationTimestamp="2011-02-28T02:48:32" Version="1.8">+
+<OrgHierarchyList>+
+<OrgHierarchy Name="ABC" LongName="NewLongName" ParentOrgHierarchyName="XYZ" OrgHierarchyLevelName="Region"/>+
+</OrgHierarchyList>+
+</RadiantDocument>+
Hence, it should not have any parent node or XML header or namespace.
Your suggestion would be really helpful.
Regards,
Achal