C# XML ignore < and > characters in a node : <p>I'm getting an xml document from a PHP script.</p>

<p>The XML schema looks something like this: </p>

<pre><code>&lt;Items&gt;
  &lt;Item&gt;
    &lt;ID&gt; 
       123g8fdg
    &lt;/ID&gt;
    &lt;Name&gt;
       Michael
    &lt;/Name&gt;
    &lt;Note&gt;
       Some notes, for example a small xml snippet: &lt;randomxml&gt;&lt;...
    &lt;/Note&gt;
  &lt;/Item&gt;    
&lt;/Items&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>The Note node could have any value (even an XML snippet)
While trying on getting the following XML data back from the server, I noticed, that the C# <strong>LoadXML</strong> function fails if the Note is the following: </p>

<pre><code>"Finish date &lt;= Start date + 1 year"
</code></pre>

<p>The "&lt;" character breaks it up (I can see that even in the C# XML Visualizer while debugging)</p>

<p>Any ways to ignore any specific XML element in the notes section, so it doesn't interfere with the parser and basic structure?</p>
