ask for solution to encode less than sign in string to make the string xml-compliant

[rose deng]

Hi,
As far as i know, & and < are special characters for xml. so we need to escape those two characters to make the string be well-formed xml string.
& is easy to handle, just encode it to &.afer validation or transformation, decode it back.
My question is how to encode < sign in element value, seems can not just encode it to <, since open tag contains < sign.
If you have solution, share with me please.
Huge thanks.

[John Lee]

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[William Barnes]

This link contains the correct encodings for ampersand, lessthan, greaterthan, quote, a single quote.
(I tried to post them but didn't know how to escape some of the symbols, so that post was messed up.)

[Jim Yingst]

&lt;
...which you get in UBB by typing
&amp;lt;
...which you get in UBB by typing
&amp;amp;lt;
...which you get in UBB by typing
&amp;amp;amp;lt;
...