Printing & in the XML Document

[Steven Rodeo]

HI Folks,
I am using the following code snippet

       
Element xelem = doc.createElement("DISPLAY");
xelem.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(""" + SOME_CONSTANT + """));

To Generate the following output in my XML document

The above code snippet gives:

<DISPLAY> &\amp ; quot;8947494 &\amp ; quot; </DISPLAY>
( I had to use the escape characters as the above won't print the (&)amp

Desired output is:

<DISPLAY> &quot;8947494&quot; </DISPLAY>

Please help!
_SM