Interesting idea and a neat hack. If I'm reading this write, though,
it would require writing < in XML as &< and so forth for other
genuine entity and character references. I agree with Seairth that
using a different character such as # would be preferable to using an
XML reserved and frequently used character such as &. Possibly ^ and
~ are relatively infrequently used, and thus could be adapted for
this purpose.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA
