Adding a CDATA element being converted to < and >

[Dini Omar]

Hi all,

I am trying to build the payload/messagebody for an element. According to
the specific the payload has to be within a CDATA element. I tried to do
this as shown below


private static final String START_TAG=new String("<![CDATA[");
private static final String END_TAG= new String("]]>");
SadFileStub.IEEdifactString theString = new SadFileStub.IEEdifactString();
theString.setIEEdifactString(START_TAG.concat("MESSAGE CONTENT
DATA").concat(END_TAG));

This does not seem to work as the message is coming out as shown below

&lt;![CDATA[MESSAGE CONTENT DATA]]&gt;

Does anyone know why this is happening?