title: Escape XML special characters in strings obtained by querying oracle DB column values
body: <p>Suppose my DB column which is of datatype varchar2 has values that containcharacters like '&lt;' '>' and '&amp;' and i want them to be escaped like &amp; lt;  , &amp; gt; etc when obtained using select query on these columns , is there some built-in feature in oracle , jdbc  to perform this activity ? </p>