writing some characters like '<' in an xml file

android xml special-characters
Waza_Be picture Waza_Be · Jul 2, 2010 · Viewed 67.5k times · Source

since the beginning of my programmation, I used some special character like "<-", ""<<" im my string.xml in Eclipse while developping for Android.

All worked fine for one year, but today, i just wanted to make some minor changes and began to edit my xml files.

I get now compilation error on these characters because eclipse believe it's part of the xml blocks.

Any idea on how I could add this symbol "<" in my xml files?

Thank a lot.

Answer

reece picture reece · Jul 2, 2010

Use

&lt; for <

&gt; for >

&amp; for &

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