phpQuery: Replace all occurrences of text with another - php

Question

I am trying to parse a website homepage to convert it into xml file to be used as an api in my app.
So far I have successfully done so. However, the parsed text contains the & (ampersand) character which causes the XML parser to fail.
I am looking for a solution that doesn't use the CDATA or doesn't output CDATA in the XML file.
I want to replace & with and at every occurrence. What phpQuery method should I use?
This causes error in browser because the text() method returns a text with
& character in it.
require('phpQuery/phpQuery.php');
$all=phpQuery::newDocumentFileHTML('BPUT.htm', $charset = 'utf-8');
$links = $all['a.myblue'];
echo '<notice>';
foreach ($links as $link) {
echo '<text>';
echo pq($link)->text();
echo '</text>';
echo '<url>';
echo pq($link)->attr('href');
echo '</url>';
}
echo '</notice>';
?>
I do not want to use CDATA, as the CDATA tag is visible in the generated XML :
<?php
header('Content-type: text/xml');
require('phpQuery/phpQuery.php');
$all=phpQuery::newDocumentFileHTML('BPUT.htm', $charset = 'utf-8');
$links = $all['a.myblue'];
echo '<notice>';
foreach ($links as $link) {
echo '<text>';
echo "<![CDATA[";
echo pq($link)->text();
echo "]]>";
echo '</text>';
echo '<url>';
echo pq($link)->attr('href');
echo '</url>';
}
echo '</notice>';
?>
bumping for answers.