Special characteres <, >, ", and & in XML in Flex

[jubii]

How to use special characteres like <,>,", and & in XML in Flex?Example: i have \[code\]xmlList = <permission id="1" label="true"/>;\[/code\]and\[code\]xml = <item id="1" permission="" />\[/code\]i do this: \[code\]xml.@permission = xmlList.toString();\[/code\]but after all this is the result = \[code\]<item id="1" permission="<permission id="1" label="true"/>" />\[/code\]I need that the special characters remain in your original format. Some help?Thanks.