Issue Summary

The Create Page REST API is encountering an issue when special characters, specifically '&', are included in the Jira field passed in the Request body. The error produced is "Error parsing xhtml", suggesting an issue with processing these special characters.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a Jira issue
2. Add '&' in any of the custom fields
3. Use the Create Page or Create Content API to create a Page in Confluence 
4. Use the API and pass Jira field in the Request body
5. Run the rule

// example custom data for API - https://<sitename>.atlassian.net/wiki/api/v2/pages
//custom data:

{
  "spaceId": "ID",
  "status": "current",
  "title": "Page Title - {{issue.key}}",
  "parentId": "PageID",
  "body": {
        "value":  "<ac:layout><p>{{issue.customfield_xxxxx}}</p></ac:layout>",
        "representation": "storage"
  }
} 

Expected Results

The automation is run successfully and the new page is created in Confluence.

Actual Results

The API call fails

"errors": [
    {
      "status": 400,
      "code": "INVALID_REQUEST_PARAMETER",
      "title": "Error parsing xhtml: Unexpected character ' ' (code 32) (missing name?)\n at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [x,xxx]",
      "detail": null
    } 

Workaround

Currently there is no known workaround for this behavior. A workaround will be added here when available