[reportlab-users] Is this a bug?

[Roberto Alsina]

This is using reportlabs 2.1

I had a bug report from a user, and after a little work, I have distilled it 
to this:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from reportlab.platypus import SimpleDocTemplate, Paragraph, Spacer
from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet
from reportlab.lib.units import inch
styles = getSampleStyleSheet()
def go():
        doc = SimpleDocTemplate("phello.pdf")
        Story = [Spacer(1,2*inch)]
        style = styles["Normal"]
        p = Paragraph('''
        <a href="http://www.com/form?a1=x&a2=y"> Citizen</a>
        ''', style)
        Story.append(p)
        doc.build(Story)

go()

When I run it, I get the following error:

xml parser error (; missing after entity/char reference) in paragraph 
beginning

If the paragraph contains 

<a href="http://www.com/form?a1=xa2=y" > Citizen</a>

it works just fine. It just doesn't like ampersands there.

It also works if I put 

<a href="http://www.com/form?a1=x&amp;a2=y" > Citizen</a>

and links to the right place, am I not getting something about quoting here?

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