Encoded Characters
After changing the site map provider to the CombinedNavSiteMapProvider I found that where I’d used special characters in my top-level navigation links, such as &, the characters were not correctly escaped and instead I ended up with &, as shown in Figure 17.121. Interestingly, if you look at the properties of the CombinedNavSiteMapProvider in the web.config file, it shows the property EncodeOutput = "true", which is most likely at the root of the problem!
Figure 17.121 Illegal characters in top-level navigation.
In order to resolve incorrectly escaped characters, in the <SharePoint:AspMenu> control add the EncodeTitle property ...
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