Help on web.xml file, what if the parameters contains key words ?

Hi:
I am just wondering what should I do if I want to include key words suchs
as <param> in web.xml file for a servlet config.
Example:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>testServlet</servlet-name>
<parameter>
<param-name>some name</param-name>
<param-value>some value</param-value>
</parameter>
</servlet>
What should I do if I want to repleace 'some value' with '</param-value>some
value' and still to prevent the engine to terminate parsing the param-value
at the fake ending? Is there a standard way in XML to distanguish that?
(in URL format it can be replaced %xx for some chars).
ie,
<param-value> </param-value>some value</param-value>
where the second </param-value> is the real ending.
Thank you!
Gang

Hi!
You can use "& lt ;" and "& gt ;" xml entities for that. Or wrap text element in <![CDATA[...]]> section.
Regards,
Ignat.

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