vbs changes < to> to > when importing file contents

Question

I have absolutly no idea when it comes to VBScript so I was quite happy when I frankensteined two simple code snippets found online to insert the entire contents of a text file

Answer 1

You don't "overcome" this. < and > characters must be encoded, otherwise there'd be issues with parsing the XML tags (which are demarcated by angular brackets, i.e. < and > characters).