Posted by Harlan Messinger on 10/05/06 14:15

John Salerno wrote:
> 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.

LOL. It isn't from Scripsit. "Scripsit" is the Latin third-person
singular preterite form of "scribere" meaning "to write". "Harlan
Messinger wrote" is what Jukka wrote.

I don't know why you didn't get my message, but the important part of
what I wrote is above.

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