What is the equivalent of 'greater-than-equal-to' or 'less-than-equal-to' in XML?

Question

I found this Use of Greater Than Symbol in XML where the answer is to use the following for 'greater-than' and 'less-than' respectively:

&gt; and &lt;

However, what should we use for 'greater-than-equal-to' and 'less-than-equal-to' ?

I already tried the following but it didn't work for me.

&ge; and &le; and &gte; and &lte;

What characters/strings are you trying to escape? `<=` and `>=` or `≥` and `≤`? — choroba, Oct 19 '16 at 08:06
I need to use it in a xslt file. So, I am looking for the first set (<= and >=) — Crusaderpyro, Oct 19 '16 at 09:42

score 23 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 02 '19 at 03:07

23

Thanks to comment from choroba.

>= and <=

answered Sep 02 '19 at 03:07

Crusaderpyro

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 20 '21 at 01:53

6

As XML is Unicode-aware, it prefers the raw characters ≤ and ≥. Alternatively, ≤ and ≥ are the hexadecimal character references to ≤ and ≥.

answered Apr 20 '21 at 01:53

Tigt

This answer is way better for presentation. The & codes work in XAML as well. – Daniel Möller Dec 06 '22 at 16:52

Cyb3rKo · Answer 3 · 2020-05-23T18:52:29.597

2

For using it in programming languages I chose using Unicode:

Java
"\u2264" for ≤
"\u2265" for ≥

Python
u"\u2264" for ≤
u"\u2265" for ≥

edited May 23 '20 at 18:52

answered May 23 '20 at 18:14

Cyb3rKo

score -10 · Answer 4 · answered May 10 '19 at 12:06

-10

You can use <= for less than equall to and >= for greater than equall to

answered May 10 '19 at 12:06

Ravi Dutt Sharma

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