Translation of some characters to entities

[Guy Sharon]

I am building a DOM tree in the code and one of the elements has a xs:string 
type attribute where its value may consist of characters like '>' and '<'.

When I set the attribute's value as follows
        element.setAttribute("attr1","g>z and w<f");
The value (for element.getAttribute("attr1");) is actually - "g>z and 
w&lt;f"

My question is why does the '>' char not translate to &gt; also? and how do 
I get it translated? -  the xml file created from the DOM is not valid 
without &gt;

Thanks.
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