Is there a way to include greater than or less than signs in an XML file?

Question

I have an XML file from a client that has greater than > and less than < signs in it and it fails an XML format check. Is there a way to get

Answer 1

You can use the similarly looking full-width less-than (U+FF1C) and full-width greater-than (0xFF1E) signs: ＜＞

These Unicode characters do not require special encoding.