note amias <p>You should enclose them in a CDATA block to keep them safe from the parser , all parsers should respect this. </p> <code> <tag><![CDATA <?>&;]!> ]]></tag></code> <p>the only thing you cannot put in CDATA is ]]> as its the CDATA terminator , however if its essential then you could do something like</p> <code><tag><![CDATA ]]]]><![CDATA >]]></tag></code> <p>for the full info see http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp </p> 982796 982806