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Ah, the bane of ", &, ', <, > and passing them all over your services-oriented environment.  Nothing new to see.  Just keep moving. Happens in most every text boundary at some point, particularly when there's legacy services and for-crap unit testing.  At least there's no misidentifying the problem.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encodings_in_HTML
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references
• http://www.experts123.com/q/what-does-double-encoding-mean-for-xml-how-does-it-happen.html

Snarky: They kept calling endpoints with the entities double encoded.  So I put in a recursive function to unencode input until it works.
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