Ora:contains and special characters into a xml

I have a problem,
I have an xmlType:
<Hello>
a>b
</Hello>
When I put it into the repository it becomes
<Hello>
a & gt; b
</Hello>
When I get it whit webdav it becomes
<Hello>
a>b
</Hello>
the problem is the search whit ora:contains because I don't try to find the resourse containing the text a>b
for example the following query does not work
SELECT extract(res,'/Resource/Contents/*').getClobVal()
FROM resource_view
WHERE existsNode(res,'//Nome[ora:contains(text(), "a>b") > 0]','xmlns:ora="http://xmlns.oracle.com/xdb"')= 1;
Help me!!
Message was edited by:
a.chiara

it does not find null.
If I use
SELECT extract(res,'/Resource/Contents/*').getClobVal()
FROM resource_view
WHERE existsNode(res,'//Nome[ora:contains(text(), "a") > 0]','xmlns:ora="http://xmlns.oracle.com/xdb"')= 1;
I found the resource.
If I use
SELECT extract(res,'/Resource/Contents/*').getClobVal()
FROM resource_view
WHERE existsNode(res,'//Nome[ora:contains(text(), "b") > 0]','xmlns:ora="http://xmlns.oracle.com/xdb"')= 1;
I found the resource.
but I don't try to find the resourse containing the text a>b

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