How to escape XML in BPEL?

I have a part of a outputmessage in an element HTML of xsd:any. This element contains HTML which i have to transform to escaped XML.
Therefore i created the following embedded java code.
String htmlContent = ((oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLElement)getVariableData("l_GetBericht_Output","reply","/ns5:GetBerichtResponse/ns14:Bericht/ns14:HTML")).getFirstChild().getNodeValue() ;
htmlContent.replaceAll("<","<") ;
htmlContent.replaceAll(">",">") ;
setVariableData("TestHTMLContent",htmlContent);
Message in l_GetBericht_Output starts with;
<l_GetBericht_Output>
<part name="reply">
<sbtn:GetBerichtResponse>
<ns3:Bericht>
<ns3:Onderwerp>sdjasldjalsda</ns3:Onderwerp>
<ns3:Tekst/>
<ns3:HTML>
<HTML>
<div>
<p>Data</p>
<p>
<p>
de heer ...
The result of the selection in BPEL variable TestHTMLContent is empty though.
Anyone any thoughts ?
Is there a better way to transform XML to escaped XML ?
Why is my selection null ?
Cheers,
Peter

Try this.
xpath query for BPEL, escaping double quotes
Should work.
Thanks,
Vijay

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      logging_pkg.info(response_text);
    END LOOP;
EXCEPTION
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END;
-- close http connection
utl_http.end_response(resp);
EXCEPTION
    WHEN utl_http.end_of_body THEN
      utl_http.end_response(resp);
END;
Cheers,
Brent

Hi Billy
Yikes - how embarassing ! Thanks for pointing out my beginners mistake there. I've fixed my code - and also implemented the substitutions of parameters like you suggested - I like that approach.
Unfortunately the end result is no better - the line
utl_http.read_text(resp,response_text);
Still returns nothing back
The headers that are coming back are
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 08:31:56 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Ubuntu)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.3-1ubuntu9.3
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: close
I guess I will need to try chasing it with the fastsms vendor so see if they can check my incoming request and see if there are any glaring problems. I know the xml is correct as I am now logging the xml string just before I send it and when I take that string and put it in their test form it works perfectly - something else in the puzzle is missing. I've had no experience using utl_http before - perhaps it's no possible to read the xml repsonse using this ?
Anyway, thanks for your help Billy.
ps - How do you paste your code into your message to get that formatting ?
Cheers,
Brent

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