title: are characters # or & allowed in xml?
body: <p>i have values with special chars that encoded to ascii in my xml.
  for example :</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;response&gt;
      &lt;name&gt;&amp;#381;irm&amp;#363;n&amp;#371;&lt;/name&gt;
  &lt;/response&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but when i parse value <code>name</code> i get only <code>&amp;</code> as value. 
  Is it allowed to use <code>#</code> or <code>&amp;</code> in xml? or i have to use cdata necessarily?</p>