export type SanitizeXmlEntitiesResult = {
    xml: string;
    /** How many bare `&` were rewritten to `&`. */
    escapedBareAmpersandCount: number;
};
/**
 * Escape bare ampersands so xml-js (and other XML parsers) do not fail with
 * "Invalid character in entity name" / unterminated reference errors.
 *
 * Existing `&`, `–`, `{`, etc. are left unchanged; xml-js expands
 * those when parsing.
 */
export declare function sanitizeXmlEntities(xml: string): SanitizeXmlEntitiesResult;
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