I am posting an XML stream, some of the tag elements have special characters, i.e., <first><![CDATA[John & Mary]]></first>

The server being posted to truncates the string just prior to the special character.

I have tried:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='IBM037?>
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?>

These all exhibit the same truncation behavior.

I have also tried removing the CDATA wrapper and the & is translated to & but this exhibits the same behavior on the IBM I-Series machine I am posting to.

Everything works fine when there are no special characters involved.

Thanks