Allow for presence of reserved chars of >,<,& in name of object.

When it is converted to xml to send to ifmap-server, contents are
normalized so that ifmap server can receive and process it fine.

Change-Id: I8f42efe0164ca732ee6ed64d8b590b1b85068f86
Closes-Bug: #1394044
(cherry picked from commit a691cd84f826fe695515b07a03e40d4bfeebd0b6)
Merge "Allow for presence of reserved chars of >,<,& in name of object." into R1.10