[flexcoders] please escape your "<" characters as "<" and your ">" characters as ">".

[bhaskar M]

Hi 
   
  I want to escape html tags in tooltip for a given string.
  is there any core function to escape < and > for a given string in flex?
  or should I have to write a new function ..
   
  please escape your "<" characters as "&lt;" and your ">" characters as "&gt;".
   
   
  Thanks  in Advance
  Baskar.