Posted by John Salerno on 10/05/06 14:09

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Scripsit Harlan Messinger:
>
>> If you want tags, whether XML or HTML, to appear literally in your
>> content you need to use "&lt;" (i.e., less than) instead of "<" and
>> "&gt;" (greater than) instead of ">".
>
> Except that you never _need_ to escape ">" (though you're allowed) and
> you _do_ need to escape "&" quite often (e.g., always in XHTML).
>
> But if this is what the OP wanted (the original question has several
> interpretations), then it's time to remind: if you needed to ask for
> help in displaying markup on a web page, you are not qualified to give
> others advice on using markup, as you apparently meant to.
>

Are you talking to me? I don't understand what you mean. I'm not trying
to give advice to anyway.

I get the feeling I'm missing some posts for some reason. The one from
Scripsit that is quoted above, for example, does not appear in my
newsreader.

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