preservechars in VFE

Hi,

I have seen some post of preserving characters through VFE in dcr but didn't get solution. In my problem I have to preserve characters < and > instead of & lt; & gt; So for this I put the
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inside clean tag in visualformatconfig.xml file and then I checked to store the value of < and > in the dcr but they are not preserved and change to & lt; and & gt;
Actually why I am doing this there are some tags which need to be entered from the dcr and then FormAPI performs the xml validation to check that user enters the tag correctly or not? but still no luck so if any body has the solution please let me know.
Here is the snippet of visualformatconfig.xml file
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ze="5000" preferfonttag="false" reducetags="true" showdonemsg="true" pr
ompt="true" hideobject="true" mswordfilter="true">

SPAN

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Environment=TS 6.5 + Solaris 5.8

Regards,
A

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Adam Stoller

Hi,

I have seen some post of preserving characters through VFE in dcr but didn't get solution. In my problem I have to preserve characters < and > instead of & lt; & gt; So for this I put the
[html]

[/html]
inside clean tag in visualformatconfig.xml file and then I checked to store the value of < and > in the dcr but they are not preserved and change to & lt; and & gt;
Actually why I am doing this there are some tags which need to be entered from the dcr and then FormAPI performs the xml validation to check that user enters the tag correctly or not? but still no luck so if any body has the solution please let me know.
Here is the snippet of visualformatconfig.xml file
[html]

ze="5000" preferfonttag="false" reducetags="true" showdonemsg="true" pr
ompt="true" hideobject="true" mswordfilter="true">

SPAN

[/html]
Environment=TS 6.5 + Solaris 5.8

Regards,
A

A DCR is XML - the only way you could potentially preserve characters like '<' and '>' (which are XML-interpreted characters) would be to somehow force the contents of the VFE textarea to be embedded within a <![CDATA[ ... ]]> tag - which I don't believe works (in a supported fashion) in DCRs.

WHY do you need to preserve these characters as their actual characters instead of entities?

Perhaps you can use some form of filter between the DCR and whatever is ingesting it?