You can use a CDATA section to store this... CDATA is ignored by XML parsers during validation... <xmlElement> <![CDATA[ I am > the rules ]]> </xmlElement> _____________________________________________ Pete Freitag (pfreitag at cfdev.com) CTO, CFDEV.COM ColdFusion Developer Resources http://www.cfdev.com/ -----Original Message----- From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Daniel Fascia Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 5:03 PM To: thelist at lists.evolt.org Subject: [thelist] Storing HTML in XML files If I want to store chunks of HTML in an XML file is it completely necessary to escape the <> signs? -- For unsubscribe and other options, including the Tip Harvester and archive of thelist go to: http://lists.evolt.org Workers of the Web, evolt !