[gatein-dev] Portal url creation with ampersands

We are running into a bunch of problems with ajax requests when the portal is used to create the urls (this is especially seen when using wsrp as it needs to rewrite urls). The issue stems from the use of '&' instead of '&', & alone is not allowed in xhtml/xml. I have already created a jira (with a patch) for this issue: https://jira.jboss.org/browse/GTNPORTAL-1597 Is there any objection or reasons why we can't use the proper '&' instead?