& in attribute value template

Let's say I create an element like this:

<a href="{@href}">...</a>

And the value of href is something like "http://host?q=a&amp;u=v".

Well, the actual output is <a href="http://host?q=a&u=v">...</a> which 
does not validate.

Does it have to be something like this?

<xsl:element name="a"><xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of 
select="@href" disable-output-escaping="yes"/></xsl:attribute></xsl:element>

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