Unable to replace special character in Script include and Business Rules

[ideamax]

Hello All,
I am facing a problem in xml creation due to special characters. I am creating xml in script include by using parameters from business rule. There are some string which contains special symbol like (&,') .

To replace them with corresponding html name or html code I am using following code :
mystring.replace("&", "&") or mystring.replace("&", "&")

but , When I save this business rule, it changes the above line to
mystring.replace("&", "&");

Please suggest a way or approach to prevent this .

[sindhuja2]

Thanks.. But the problem here is the response from external source is escaped (special characters) are handled. But when the same is retrieved in service now using

var response = sm.getResponse();

The response xml still has unescaped special characters say like & , > which when being parsed without escaping (converting & as &) is causing issue.

we can script in during processing to replace the special characters but is there way this can be handled without much processing at receiver's end..? kindly advise..

[geoffcox]

I'm not sure I follow.