Escape character

[Joon Park]

Hello,
I need to read "<" from a xml file, but I get
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException:The content beginning "<" is not legal markup... Is there some kind of escape character in xml?
...
<CONTENT>if(a < b)
b = a;
a = 0;
</CONTENT>
Above code snippet is what I want to read from a xml file. Thanks in advance for your help.

[Mapraputa Is]

"<" symbol is illegal in XML, you have to escape it as "&lt;"
[This message has been edited by Mapraputa Is (edited August 06, 2001).]

[rani bedi]

Special characters are handled through entities.
An entity reference like < contains a name (in this case, �lt�) between the start and end delimiters. The text it refers to (< ) is substituted for the name, like a macro in a C or C++ program. The following table shows the predefined entities for special characters

Character Reference
& &
< <
> >
" "
' '

[Joon Park]

Thanks guys,
"& l t;" seems to be working in place of "<".
[This message has been edited by Joon Park (edited August 06, 2001).]
[This message has been edited by Joon Park (edited August 06, 2001).]

[Mapraputa Is]

Errr... "<" is &lt; , not &amp; - I corrected my post