How to put String with html tags as it is into xml

Question

I am using apache dom API to create xml from java.
I have a string with html tags in it .when I add the string to xml, its replacing all the "<"; with &lt and ">" with > I would like the html tags to look as it is instead of the > and & lt;. How can I acheive that
this is the code snippet of what I am doing
In java class
String titleString = "<font color=red>This Is an Example of a Red Subject</font>"
Document doc = new DocumentImpl();
Element root = doc.createElement("bulletin");
Element item = doc.createElement("title");
item.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(titleString));
In Xml it looks like below
<title><font color=red>This Is an Example of a Red Subject</font></title>
but I would like to have the xml like below
<title><font color="red">This Is an Example of a Red Subject</font></title>
Can you please suggest me whats the best way to acheive this.
I appreciate all your help
Thank you
Suma

Answer 1

One problem is that you don't understand escaping. If you re-read what you posted you'll see that what you say you get, and what you say you want, are identical. That's because you didn't escape one of the two properly. So your first step should be to find the section about escaping in Chapter 1 of your XML book and read it carefully. Figure out what you should have done here (yes, the same rules apply).
However, to attempt to answer what I think your question is: if you have a String which contains markup, and you want to convert that String to XML elements, then you have to feed the String into an XML parser.