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Posted by Blinky the Shark on 10/31/95 11:46
Toby Inkster wrote:
> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>
>> It just occurred to me that it seems like "<code>foo</code>"
>> should make foo inert by definition.
>
> Do you mean that <code><b></code> should be equivalent to
> <code><b></code>?
I mean that something in the code element should not be operated
upon; it should just be displayed.
> If so, they tried that with <xmp>, but that was deprecated as of
> HTML 4 as it is impractical for many reasons:
>
> - what if you actually want to include some bold text
> within your code fragment (useful for syntax highlighting
> for example)?
I guess you'd be out of luck.
> http://test.tobyinkster.co.uk/Preview/Syntax-
Highlighting/
> test.php
>
> - it makes parsing difficult
Why?
> - it doesn't fit in nicely with SGML rules, making
> validation
> tricky.
I'll have to believe you on faith, there.
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