Ignore embedded quotes in ruby

I'm not exactly sure what is happening, but the xml file I am writing to has this:

This "is&a开发者_StackOverflow社区mp;quot; now my String

when it should look like this:

This "is" now my String

Here is the code, except I don't have access to the actual string at compile time. Is there a way to tell the assetName variable to treat embedded quotes as quotes? Thanks.

assetName = 'This "is" now my String'

response.search("property[name=next]").first.andand["value"]  = assetName

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In XML, quotes may never appear in attributes, regardless of the style of the quotes used for the attributes. It is likely that your XML library is escaping these quotes for you.