I am placing an SQL query(which contains < symbol) inside xml file and i am trying to read that query in a java program.
But it is displaying the exception
“org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The content of elements must consist
of well-formed character data or markup.”
can any one help me how to fix the above issue?
You need to escape using XML entities:
&encode as&<encode as<Technically, you don’t need to escape the following, but it is common to do so:
>encode as>"encode as"'encode as'For more info, see this Wikipedia article for more