Problem with xml, ampersands, and rotating dynamic text

hello! i’ve been coming here forever! excellent site. the best! here is my question…

i am pulling in a bit of text from xml with an ampersand in it (“John & Marilyn”). currently, its in the xml as & (but i’ve tried a number of things). now if i change the dynamic text field to html, it will display the ampersand properly but once i rotate it, it will not display anything. long story short, i need to…

  • read in an ampersand from xml
  • display it in a rotated in a dynamic text field

any thoughts?