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I am going to assume your are talking about the & character in the URL.
The & character is only used as an escape character within xml and
needs to be replaced with & to be legal.

Your sample URL becomes
<Element1>http://overthetop.com?search=too%20much&amp;sort=populatity</Element1>,
which is valid XML and cam be used as is for hyperlinks.

Here is some sample code to replace & in a URL with &amp;

public static void ReplaceRegex()
{
// Regex search and replace
RegexOptions options = RegexOptions.None;
Regex regex = new Regex(@"&", options);
string input =
@"http://overthetop.com?search=too%20much&sort=populatity";;
string replacement = @"&amp;";
string result = regex.Replace(input, replacement);

// TODO: Do something with result
System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(result, "Replace");
}

.

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