The DataWeave <~ Operator: How Angle Brackets in...

A customer typed "" in their notes field. It broke 200 XML orders and I spent 3 hours finding a one-line fix. TL;DR User-generated text with angle brackets (<, >) breaks XML output — the parser treats them as tags The <~ metadata operator with {cdata: true} wraps content in CDATA sections CDATA preserves angle brackets as literal text: <![CDATA[text with <VIP>]]> The <~ operator requires DataWeave 2.5 (Mule 4.5+) JSON output silently ignores cdata metadata — no error, no effect The Problem: Vali