The "<" character is very special in XML and should only appear
when you want the parser to treat what follows as some sort
of markup. In all other cases, use "<" which is a built
in "entity" that the parser knows about that translates post-parse
to the "<" character. The ">" character is less constrained but
it is good defensive authoring practice to escape it as well using
">"
Sean
Book of condolences for the Omagh bombing:
http://www.rte.ie/condolences.html