XMLType and Special Character Conversion

I'm looking for something to convert special characters like &amp to the actual & it represents.
I can't seem to find a method using
extract for an xmltype or xslprocessor.valueOf
I'm sure its something simple, but I'm having trouble putting my finger on it. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks

Let me restate. When I use and XMLDom and the xslprocessor.valueOf function, "&amp" is converted to "&"
when I use v_char2 := v_doc.extract('/LoanPkg/Property/PRPTY_STRT_NME/text()').GetStringval;
It doesn't convert it.

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Hi Rahul ,
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That's because the special characters you are using are the scripting tags and it confuses itself with the OIM scripting process, for instance JSP's etc.
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