When using a SAX parser, parsing fails when there is a " in the node content. How can I resolve this? Do I need to convert all " characters?

In other words, anytime I have a quote in a node:

 <node>characters in node containing "quotes"</node>

That node gets butchered into multiple character arrays when the Handler is parsing it. Is this normal behaviour? Why should quotes cause such a problem?

Here is the code I am using:

import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;

 ...


HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(GATEWAY_URL + "/"+ question.getId());
          httpget.setHeader("User-Agent", PayloadService.userAgent);
          httpget.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/xml");

          HttpResponse response = PayloadService.getHttpclient().execute(httpget);
          HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

          if(entity != null)
          {        
              SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
              SAXParser sp = spf.newSAXParser();            
              XMLReader xr = sp.getXMLReader();            

              ConvoHandler convoHandler = new ConvoHandler();
              xr.setContentHandler(convoHandler);             
              xr.parse(new InputSource(entity.getContent()));                                


              entity.consumeContent();         

               messageList = convoHandler.getMessageList();


          }