Problems with special characters with XML/PDF printing

Hi,
Our setup:
Apex Listener 2.0.5
Oracle DB 11G
Weblogic
Apex 4.2.2
Various recent major browsers
We used this blog post so we could do some PDF printing with APEX Listener:
http://marcsewtz.blogspot.be/2013/04/pdf-printing-with-oracle-application.html
The problem is special characters. For example the "&" sign comes out as "%26amp;" when we export an XML.
Could anyone provide some insights of what we can do to fix this?
Regards,
Joni

This is a known bug.
https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/BugDisplay?_afrLoop=957905848396285&id=18282188&_afrWindowMode=0&_adf.ctrl-state=168vq5zhn3_233
The bug 18282188 has been fixed in Apex 4.2.5 version.
Upgrade the Apex version to 4.2.5 when it is available.

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