how to escape '&' in maven pom property values [duplicate]
I've not used maven but from the sounds of it, standard XML escaping would get the job done. In your case you can try using
& instead of &
You can escape one character or a whole line that might contain some "special" characters by surrounding property value with <![CDATA[ property value ]]>. For example for some URL it would look like:
<properties> <some.url><![CDATA[http://stackoverflow.com?param_1=1¶m_2=2]]></some.url></properties>