xml with strange characters

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hi all
i'm retruning a xml string when a method is called.

When i look at the soap returned xml is formatted with < charactes 
instead of < or >

e.g.

&lt;ROOT&gt;
............
&lt;/ROOT&gt;

can anyone help me to solve this

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