Not escaping '&' in XSLT

Question

I have a XSL stylesheet with the following code:
<xsl:param name="link"/>
<xsl:template match="mystuff">
         <a href="{$link}">                    
             <xsl:value-of select="anchor"/>
         </a>
</xsl:template>
(...)'link' is a parameter whose value is passed from the java code, and normally contains the '&' character (as in URL query parameters).
i.e.: http://www.myserver.net/servlet?p=a&m=b
The problem is that when doing the XSL transformation, the '&' is escaped into '& amp;'.
So instead of: <a href="http://www.myserver.net/servlet?p=a[b&[/bm=b">my link</a>
I'm getting: <a href="http://www.myserver.net/servlet?p=a& amp;m=b">my link</a>
That would be ok with most browsers (that I know) but the browser that I'm using doesn't have that support, so I really need to output the unescaped '&' in the link.
I've tried <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"> as well as setting the output to text, but neither worked (the former generated an exception during the transformation, and the latter didn't output the HTML tag).
Any ideas?

Answer 1

I understand DrClap's view on this. I've found that view on every thread out there, where someone asks for the same 'incorrect' behaviour.
Still, even though I understand the correctness of XSLT, there should always be a way of bending the rules for cases when it's justified.
The problem is that the browser is a J2ME app that's being developed here at work, and since they're trying to reduce its footprint I'm guessing making it handle the '& amp;' won't be a priority. The idea is that the server should make it easy on the client, so that we can have a really slim client.
ajeru's tips didn't work either, but I did format my <a> tag that way (separate the href attribute) because it looks neater. Thanks.
I ended up adding one line of Java code after the XSL transformation that just replaces all the '& amp' with '&'. It's an ugly hack, but it will keep things running, and that's what matters when deadlines approach ;)