Preserve certain text from being escaped

[ernieIzde8ski]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

In a project, I need to preserve ampersands inside text so that I can have the following nodes:

	<class> &InventoryMenu; </class>
	<alpha>	0 </alpha> 
	<locus> &true; </locus>

However, inserting an ampersand as normal results in it being escaped to &amp. I couldn't tell if there were some mechanism in the library for preventing that behavior already, but it would be useful to have one.

Describe the solution you'd like

A backwards-slash-based solution seems the most straightforward, like:

{
    "class": "\\&InventoryMenu;",
    "alpha": 0,
    "locus": "\\&true;"
}

Describe alternatives you've considered

Some macro-based solutions came to mind, but none that seemed reasonable.

[vinitkumar]

Thanks for reporting this. I will need to think about a way to implement it in a backward compatible way. Let me get back to you on this.

[vinitkumar]

@ernieIzde8ski I just looked into this. It looks like escaping is the correct thing to do in this case and there is no good way to implement this without breaking backward compatibility.