html - What do lt; and gt; stand for? - Stack Overflow I know that the entities lt; and gt; are used for < and >, but I am curious what these names stand for Does lt; stand for something like "Left tag" or is it just a code?
html - What character encoding is gt;? - Stack Overflow This might answer your question Basically it is HTML encoding for a few predefined characters Characters like gt; and amp; are HTML Entities specifically, they are Named HTML Entities
writing lt; and gt; to a xml file instead of lt; and gt; in java i have to write a few lines to a xml file which should contain lt; and > symbols as part of value of a tag i am setting them in a string that has some text along with lt; and > symbols , and af