< becomes &lt; when using strophe.js

Question

I'm sending message containing < character.

But the message was recieved as < character.

Here's my script:

var message = $msg({to: 'user@domain.com', "type": "chat"}).c('body').t('<a href="#">hshshsh</a>').up().c('active', {xmlns: "xhttp://jabber.org/protocol/chatstates"});         
Gab.connection.send(message);

The message was actually: <a href="#">hshshsh</a>

But it was recieved as: <a href="#">hshshsh</a>

What does make the < converted to <

Answer 1

Possible duplicate:

Strophe character encoding issue