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Posted by John Salerno on 10/05/06 14:47
Harlan Messinger wrote:
> 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 "<" (i.e., less than) instead of "<" and
>>>> ">" (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.
Woops, that's what I get for just glancing at the first word! :)
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