Re: Problems with escaping <

Ilka wrote:
> Forgive my question, I am a newbie to XML and real new to kxml.
> I write my XML  document to a file using the fileOutputStreamWriter together with the XmlWriter.  Now I 
> have for example "&lt;"  for the "<" sign.
>
> How can I change it? Any help would be great!

Hi Ilka,

the < character has a special meaning in XML and if it occurs in literal 
text it must be escaped to &lt;. If you want to write < as part of an 
element, please use startTag() or endTag, or use the 
fileOutputStreamWriter directly if you do not need the encoding 
capabilities of kXML.

Best regards
Stefan