On Demand Process - Special Characters

I have an on demand process (ODP) that I use to populate items in a page with. I followed the examples from Denis Kubrik and others on the OTN. The problem I have run into is data with ampersands. I know that there a special characters that need to be escaped in XML documents. I have used the replace function in the SQL Query to change '&' into '&'. However, the process still seems to die. I am using the testing capability documented here.
When I run the ODP that does not return the ampersand all is well, I see the XML document. When I retrieve a row with the ampersand I see:
"Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.
The operation completed successfully. Error processing resource 'http://test:7734/pls/apex/f?p=128:0:8491..."
When I run the SQL code from SQL developer using output I see a valid XML document.
Does anyone have any insight to this?
Thanks!

DECLARE
v_first_name VARCHAR2 (50);
v_last_name VARCHAR2 (50);
v_title VARCHAR2 (50);
v_phone VARCHAR2 (25);
v_email VARCHAR2 (50);
v_dept VARCHAR2 (200);
BEGIN
FOR c IN (select first_name, last_name, nyc_title, desk_phone_number, email_address, kronos_badge_number, employee_id, replace(department_name,'&','&') department_name
from anc_employees_v
where employee_id = TO_NUMBER (v('EMPLOYEE_ID')))
LOOP
v_first_name := c.first_name;
v_last_name := c.last_name;
v_title := c.nyc_title;
v_phone := c.desk_phone_number;
v_email := c.email_address;
v_dept := c.department_name;
END LOOP;
OWA_UTIL.mime_header ('text/xml', FALSE);
HTP.p ('Cache-Control: no-cache');
HTP.p ('Pragma: no-cache');
OWA_UTIL.http_header_close;
HTP.prn ('<body>');
HTP.prn ('<desc>this xml genericly sets multiple items</desc>');
HTP.prn ('<item id="P16_FIRST_NAME">' || UPPER(v_first_name) || '</item>');
HTP.prn ('<item id="P16_LAST_NAME">' || UPPER(v_last_name) || '</item>');
HTP.prn ('<item id="P16_TITLE">' || v_title || '</item>');
HTP.prn ('<item id="P16_PHONE">' || v_phone || '</item>');
HTP.prn ('<item id="P16_EMAIL">' || UPPER(v_email) || '</item>');
HTP.prn ('<item id="P16_DEPARTMENT_ID">' || UPPER(v_dept) || '</item>');
HTP.prn ('</body>');
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
OWA_UTIL.mime_header ('text/xml', FALSE);
HTP.p ('Cache-Control: no-cache');
HTP.p ('Pragma: no-cache');
OWA_UTIL.http_header_close;
HTP.prn ('<body>');
HTP.prn ('<desc>GET_EMPLOYEE_DATA</desc>');
HTP.prn ('<item id="P16_ERROR">' || SQLERRM || '</item>');
HTP.prn ('</body>');
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I am using a query to get the filename and filepath. It works fine as long as i do not have [], but i need to save the file as i mentioned along with the Square Brackets.
Please help.

Hello,
I can reproduce the issue on my test environment: When I create a Data Driven Subscription and specify the report name by get from a subscription delivery table, and the value of the "report name" column contains square brackets. The subscription failed
with following error in the error log:
ERROR: Error occurred processing subscription ab9523a6-0256-4607-b818-a7666204d018:
The file name is not valid. Avoid using special characters such as /\?*:<>|+,[]"& in the file name.
notification!WindowsService_1!1f24!05/30/2014-15:31:02:: i INFO: Notification 0cf5a356-3172-4108-9d8c-58ea81a0b80a completed. Success: False, Status: The file name is not valid. Avoid using special characters such as /\?*:<>|+,[]"& in the
file name., DeliveryExtension: Report Server FileShare, Report: Report6, Attempt 0
It seems that the behavior is by design. please avoid using square brackets as file name. Maybe you can try to use parentheses () instead.
Regards,
Fanny Liu
Fanny Liu
TechNet Community Support

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