Control characters in node value

Hi,

I am using IBM's XML4J parser. I need to parse certain XML that is of
the following form.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<A>
 <B>#java.sql.SQLException:
oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleConnection.<init>(OracleConnection.java)
 </B>
</A>

It contains the control characters '<' and '>'. Is it possible for me to
parse this XML and extract the value of tag <B>?

Thanks and regards,
Deepali