# RESOLVED - Stored Procedure escape characters?

**URL:** <https://forum.liquibase.org/t/resolved-stored-procedure-escape-characters/1914>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [April 12, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/resolved-stored-procedure-escape-characters/1914 "2012-04-12T00:37:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![pnzrdrgoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@pnzrdrgoon](https://forum.liquibase.org/u/pnzrdrgoon)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/resolved-stored-procedure-escape-characters/1914/1 "2012-04-12T00:37:00Z")

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I have a few stored procedures that include less than and greater than characters which is causing:

liquibase.exception.ChangeLogParseException: Error parsing line 966 column 33 of C:/projects/development/bin/DBLiquibase/initial.xml: The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup.&nbsp;

which is ‘IF @Quantity \< @TempQty’ &nbsp;Is there a way to escape these symbols?

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**Author:** ![pnzrdrgoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@pnzrdrgoon](https://forum.liquibase.org/u/pnzrdrgoon)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/resolved-stored-procedure-escape-characters/1914/2 "2012-04-12T00:37:00Z")

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Thank you! &nbsp;I’ll give that a shot.

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**Author:** ![Guest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@Guest](https://forum.liquibase.org/u/Guest)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/resolved-stored-procedure-escape-characters/1914/3 "2012-04-12T00:37:00Z")

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Use CDATA blocks in the XML to allow those types of symbols ( [http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml\_cdata.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp))

Nathan