Replace special characters in xml to its HTML equivalent

Hello All,
I did a small xml processor which will parse the given xml document and retrieves the necessary values. I used XPath with DocumentBuilder to implement the same.
The problem which had faced initially was, i could not able parse the document when the value comes with the '&' special character. For example,
<description>a & b</description>I did some analysis and found that the '&' should be replaced with its corresponding HTML equivalent
& So the problem had solved and i was able to process the xml document as expected. I used the replaceAll() method to the entire document.
Then i thought, there would be some other special character which may cause the same error in future. I found '<' is also will cause the same kind of error. For example,
<description>a < b</description>Here i couldn't able to use the replaceAll(), because even the '<' in the xml element tags was replaced. So i was not able to parse the xml document.
Did anyone face this kind of issue? Can anyone help me to get rid of this issue.
Thanks
kms

Thats the thing about XML. It has to be correct, or it doesn't pass the gate. This is nothing really, seen it many times before. It becomes funny when you start to run into character set mismatches.
In this case the XML data should have either been escaped already, or the data should have been wrapped in cdata blocks, as described here:
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp
Manually "fixing" files is not what you want to be doing. The file has to be correct according to the very simple yet strict XML specifications, or it isn't accepted.

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