Xml publisher reprot - special character problem

Question

I invoice report through xml publisher. I have '&' special character in vendor list. I am getting below error
A semi colon character was expected. Error processing resource.
Below is the code
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY XML_RPT AS
    FUNCTION XML_TAG (p_tag IN VARCHAR2, p_data IN VARCHAR2) RETURN VARCHAR2 IS
    l_ret_str VARCHAR2(5000);
    BEGIN
        l_ret_str := '<'||p_tag||'>'||p_data||'</'||p_tag||'>';
        RETURN l_ret_str;
    END XML_TAG;
     PROCEDURE VENDOR(errbuf          OUT  VARCHAR2,
                     retcode         OUT  NUMBER) IS
    CURSOR inv_Cur  IS
        select pv.vendor_name          
        from po_vendors pv;        
     xmldata            varchar2(1000);
     l_sqlstr           varchar2(1000);
     l_seqnum           varchar2(3);
     l_vendor_name      varchar2(100);
    BEGIN
      xmldata := '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';     
      xmldata :=xmldata|| '<VENDOR>';
      xmldata := xmldata||' <LIST_VENDOR>';
      fnd_file.put_line(fnd_file.output,xmldata);    
      FOR rpt_rec IN inv_Cur LOOP
          xmldata := '<VENDOR_REC>';
          l_vendor_name := replace(rpt_rec.VENDOR_NAME,'&','&amp');         
          xmldata := xmldata || XXMCG_XML_TAG('VENDOR_NAME',L_VENDOR_NAME);
          xmldata :=xmldata|| '</VENDOR_REC>';
          fnd_file.put_line(fnd_file.output,xmldata);
      END LOOP;
      xmldata := '</LIST_VENDOR>';
      xmldata := xmldata||'</VENDOR>';
     fnd_file.put_line(fnd_file.output,xmldata);
    EXCEPTION
    WHEN OTHERS THEN
         fnd_file.put_line(fnd_file.log,substr(SQLERRM,1,500));
    END VENDOR;
END XML_RPT;can any one advice.

Answer 1

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