I have a sitemap (which is submitted to Google for indexing) in which I am adding URLs which have an ampersand (`&`) in it. Since in sitemap `&` has to be escaped I replaced `&` with `&amp;` in the URLs in the sitemap. My actual page URLs contain just `&`.

As I am new to Google webmasters and SEO, I wish to understand if this difference of ampersand in URL and sitemap will cause any issue. Will my pages get indexed? This may seem like a noob level question because I am able to access the site after replacing `&` with `&amp;` in the URL. But still any help on this front will be highly appreciated.