How to accept / as a valid character when parsing XML

I'm trying to parse some XML but I ran into an issue where my data has a / in it (see below).

<pArray index="0">/shared/BENANDERSON</pArray>

When I ran it, I got this error.

Here is the code where I found the issue occurring. The XML reader must see the / as the invalid character. The value of P0 eventually ends up as null which causes another issue downstream. Is there a way for me to proceed with the / in the data? Thank you!

do %request.Content.Rewind()
set content = %request.Content.Read($$$MaxStringLength)
Set reader = ##class(%XML.Reader).%New()

Set status = reader.OpenString(content)

Do reader.Correlate("visMExecuteResult","ExecuteResult")

Do reader.Next(.executeResult,.status)
    }
else
{
return ..HttpException415("Only json or xml is allowed", "Execute")
}

set currentNamespace = $NameSpace
set NameSpace = executeResult.NameSpace

set Code = executeResult.Code
set Error = executeResult.Error

set ErrorName = executeResult.ErrorName

set PArray = executeResult.PArray
set P0 = executeResult.PArray.GetAt(0)