One simple way to send special characters like quotes, when you don't want the parser to interpret them, and this is how sending strings over xml or http works, is to encode it, for example the 'and' symbol is encoded as &, so as to 'escape' it's usual meaning, i.e. the next value in a list of paramereters, see the url for this post. You'd need an encoder class for the client, and an unencoder class for the server.

http://www.jguru.com/forums/answer.jsp?op=2&EID=1270031

Another way would be to use the octet type.