The quick brown fox') AS decoded;
+---------------------+
| decoded             |
+---------------------+
| The quick brown fox |
+---------------------+
</pre></blockquote>

<p>Encode a text with special characters:</p>
<blockquote><pre>mysql&gt; SELECT decode_xml('3 &amp;gt; &amp;quot;2&amp;quot; &amp;amp; 4 &amp;lt; 5') as decoded;
+-----------------+
| decoded         |
+-----------------+
| 3 > "2" & 4 < 5 |
+-----------------+
</pre></blockquote>

<h3>ENVIRONMENT</h3>
MySQL 5.1 or newer

<h3>SEE ALSO<