How to handle < and > symbols in HttpService if we use xml as a result format ?

Question

I used a httpservice which returns a xml as a result.But the content itself has a '<' symbol or '>' symbol , it leads to error ! How can i handle this? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Either escape the content or enclose it in cdata. see http://xml.silmaril.ie/authors/specials/

Answer 2

Thanks RC, It works good.

while we forming the tags, we have to use 'cdata' for escaping special characters.

below tag brings error:

<myTagname> includes<>symbols </mytagname>

i changed as follwing :

<myTagName> <![CDATA[ includes<>symbols ]]> </mytagName>

It works fine.

Thanks again.

Regards, Sankara narayanan Ekambaranathan.