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Subject: lxml tostring quoting too much
From: andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com>
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I would really like to do the following:

from lxml import etree as ET
from lxml.builder import E

url = "http://something?x=10&y=20"
l = E.link(url)
ET.tostring(l) -> "<link>http://something?x=10&y=20</link>"

However the lxml tostring always quotes the &, I can't find a way to
tell it to avoid quoting it.
Is it possible?
Thanks