RE: Less-than reserved character sanity check...

[Jesse Pelton]

Assuming you're letting Xerces do the serialization (by using DOMWriter, for instance), just include '<' in your character data. Xerces translates characters into the corresponding character entities as needed. From: Styduhar, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 3:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Less-than reserved character sanity check... I have an XML file which needs to have a “<” (less than) character in a data field.  I have put the less-than character in the XML as “&lt;” which is how I’ve always done it.  However – after Xerces parses the document, the string is transformed into “lt;”… and the rest of my software doesn’t handle that.  Have I lost my mind?  How am I supposed to encode greater than and less than symbols?   Thanks, Chris