Crossposting from stackoverflow

Can someone let me know how can I add less than (<) and greater than (>) sign in logback.xml?

I want to have a encoder.pattern like below

<encoder>
 <pattern>%p [%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS}] %c{3}:[%C{1}:%M:%L] - [%t] - %replace(%.-20480m){'[^A-Za-z0-9=<>:@\\-\\[\\]\n\\s!]','_'}%n
 </pattern>
<encoder>

But this is failing because of the presence of <> ?


Thanks,
Debraj