XML escape characters

You need to escape specific XML characters in Liberty configuration files, such as the server.xml file because Liberty does not automatically escape these characters. If you use the Rational® Application Developer tool, you do not need to manually escape these characters.

Table 1. XML characters. For more information, see Extensible Markup Language (XML) .
Original character Escaped character
" "
' '
< &lt;
> &gt;
& &amp;