Xml help, using < in a string?

Question

well im using xml and this is the code:

<icon content=" some text including < more text" >

this returns an error, how can i use the < and > within a string?

Answer 1

Use character entities instead. These consist of an &quot;&amp;&quot; sign, followed by a short descriptor, followed by a semicolon. The ones you&#039;re looking for are &amp; lt; for the &lt; sign, and &amp; gt; for the &gt; sign. Remove the spaces between the &amp; and the letters; I had to insert them to prevent Y!A from turning them into the symbols themselves.

The complete list is at the link below.

Answer 2

use the cdata tag.

&lt;icon content=&lt;![CDATA[ &quot;some text including &lt; more text&quot;]]&gt;&gt;

Answer 3

If you want to use the &lt; character inside XML text/strings, use:

&amp; lt;

Similarly use &amp; gt; for &gt;, &amp; quot; for &quot; (double quotes) and so on.

I suggest you find yourself an xml character entity chart. Google for it.