How to insert brackets into an XML element value?

[Ong CherYee]

If I have a <file> </file> element in an XML file and I want to insert a filename of the form PED<yyMMdd>232, how do I insert the < and > brackets as an element value inside the <file> tag?

I use JCreator to edit the xml file and it treats <yyMMdd> as a seperate element instead of being part of the filename.

[Nitesh Kant]

Escape < with &lt; and > with &gt;

[Ulf Dittmer]

Or you can use a CDATA section.