Excluding & passing in xml

[hanishjadala]

require 'builder'

builder = ::Builder::XmlMarkup.new(:target=>@output, :indent=>2)
builder.result{
builder.total_prospects "1"
builder.prospect { |b|
b.text << "Test & Me";
b.welcome << "Welcome & You";
}
}
print builder
OUTPUT:

Can you help how should I do this.
Need text in a tag but as you can see it is not coming with in tags