spring property howto escape special characters in sql?

Question

I got this property in my spring configuration of my dao project:

<property name="LBQC">
            <value>
                SELECT u.name, u.cq
                FROM user u
                WHERE u.cq <> 0 ORDER BY u.cq DESC;
        </value>
        </property>

Unfortunality I have a problem with that <> notation. It leads to The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup. I am not familiar with xml . How can I escape those kind of characters?

Thanks for your help.

Stefan

Answer 1

replace it with <> or encapsulate the entire query in CDATA

Answer 2

I think you can use != instead of <> in your query to have the same result

SELECT u.name, u.cq
FROM user u
WHERE u.cq != 0 
ORDER BY u.cq DESC;