What you are thinking of is CDATA -- *un*Parsed Character
Data. That lets the paragraph contain <, >, &, and ; characters
without having them be interpreted.
You solved your embedded-HTML problem using < -- the
entity reference for the "<" character. That is another valid
solution to the problem of text that includes some of the
special characters. (< and & are the ones you really have to
watch out for).
The original message deals with two different problems:
* Understanding which tags are meant to be rendered "inline".
--Even if not interpreted, they would ideally display
as:
- This sentence has a <b>bold</b> word.
Rather than:
+ This sentence has a
-<b>bold
-word.
* Identifying the "outline structure" in an XML document.
--As described in the original message, an "outline
structure" is a simple and easily-edited format that
does not encode nicely in XML. Replicating such
structures in XML requires the addition of a secondary
tag that obfuscates the outline structure.
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