2510796 - Error: OData Receiver Adapter [The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference]

The integration flow contains an OData receiver adapter. When you deploy the integration flow, it fails with the one of the below error:

• com.sap.gateway.core.ip.component.odata.exception.OsciException: An exception of type 'XMLStreamException' occurred., cause: java.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[1,182] Message: The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference
• com.sap.gateway.core.ip.component.odata.exception.OsciException: An exception of type 'WstxUnexpectedCharException' occurred., cause: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxUnexpectedCharException: Unexpected character '&' (code 38) (expected a name start character)

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