Character Escape Codes (Special Characters) in XML Sitemap

Be advised that all data in the Sitemap should use entity escape codes for the characters listed below while website url build with special characters such as, Ampersand, Single and Double Quotes, Greater Than or Less Than...

Character Escape Code for the commonly used special characters in url
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Ampersand & &
Single Quote ' '
Double Quote " "
Greater Than > >
Less Than < &lt;