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Why we need &lt; and &gt; instead of < and >

A question which came up lately is why we need to escape < and > characters when issuing a SEARCH request on an Exchange folder...

In fact, this has nothing whatsoever to do with Exchange or the WebDAV protocol - at least, not directly. It just happens that the WebDAV protocol uses XML as the transport medium, and in XML, those characers are reserved ones; After all, they are used to start and end tags...


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Posted by Henning Krause on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 12:00 AM, last modified on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 12:00 PM
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On 8/18/2009 2:50:45 PM Sasikumar United States wrote:

Sasikumar

can you show me an example query with lt and gt , i have given it but it's not working fine ..

please throw some light on this

thanks in advance