Characters allowed in XML element content

CICS® Configuration Manager API XML elements can contain the following characters:

All other characters are considered "unsafe", and must be specified using one of the following escaped formats:

%h

EBCDIC character reference, where h is a hexadecimal number representing the EBCDIC character code.

For example, to include a less than sign in the content of an element, specify:

%4C

&#d; or &#xh;
Numeric XML character reference, where d is a decimal number and h is a hexadecimal number representing the character code point in ISO/IEC 10646.

Named XML character references (such as & and <) are not supported.