flash and xml using the less than sign

I hope someone will be able to help me with this.
Has anyone ever had a problem reading the less than sign from and xml file?

I have Tried using all kinds of charaters:

<, <, %3c and <![CDATA[<]]>

<dynamicQuiz>
<category name="page4">
<question text="1. Question number one is 1 < 2 or is 1 > 2 ?">
<options letter="A">options Number 1</options>
<options letter="B">options Number 2</options>
<options letter="C">options Number 3</options>
<options letter="D">options Number 4</options>
</question>
</category>
</dynamicQuiz>

I have tried to escape the charater too. When Flash reads it, it just ends at whatever charaters I put there like the tag has ended.

If anyone has come across this before I would appreciate if you would share how you resoled it.

Thanks,
Steve

You will have to put the html equivilant and then translate back to what it is supposed to be in the flash app.