Invalid XML document - "&" character in dp-xml

Hi guys,
Do anyone know how to avoid XML parser exception
in admin console throwed because one of the
attributes in dp.xml has "&" sign in the value string (e.g. URL) ?!
PS: I am talking about editing dp xml via amconsole.
Thanks,
Alex :-)

Did this work for you? When I try & amp; it works the first time, but when I go back in to edit, it's resolved back to plain '&' and gets an error again. I certainly don't want to change it every time! Same thing happened with the entity reference.
When I use '%26', it doesn't resolve in the browser view.
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