Dear all, that has probably been asked 10e6 times, however, I don't find any comments on how to properly escape special characters in a toolxy.xml. What I want to achieve is the following: <command interpreter="bash">$myScript &> $logFile</command> where myScript is dynamically created (as part of the configfiles-section) and the logFile is where stderr and stdout should go to. Now the problem is obviously the "&"-character, because it causes the following error-msg on reloading the toolxy.xml: ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 5, column 50 where the 5/50 refers to the "&"-character. By the way: redirecting either stdout or stderr by specifying just ">" (instead of "&>") works fine. I tried a lot of different notations in the meanwhile, but neither something like "\&>" nor "\&>" works. Any suggestions? Many thanks in advance and Cheers! Uwe