URL in epub results in XML parsing error

Question

Hi
I am using inDesign to create epub ebooks,  but stumbling over inserting hyperlinks. Regular hyperlinks to  straightforward URLs work OK, but if I add a link to Google maps, like  this one...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=[email protected],0.394&ll=51.443, 0.394&z=17&iwloc=A
... I get problems.
Some ebook readers refuse to load the book, reporting  XML parsing error: not well-formed. The red underline points to the  second equals symbol. Adobe Digital Editions loads the book, but the  hyperlink and everything following it are not displayed.
I have searched for help about this, and gather that  XML does not like equals signs. I have tried using percent encoding  (%3D) for  the second equals sign, but iD appears to insert "25" after  the % sign. I even tried using percent encoding for all the reserved  characers in the URL (ie :/=@,) but nothing I do seems to fix the  problem.
I would really appreciate some help  with this. I've run out of ideas.

Answer 1

In fact, I don't use XML DB and what I want to do is just to load XML file into the relational table and some parts of whole XML file will be inserted into the CLOB in the table.Why wouldn't you want to use XML DB in 10gR2 to handle XML? I didn't know there was another way. Anyway, you might want to ask this question in this forum.
XML DB