Posted by Blinky the Shark on 01/08/95 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>&lt;b&gt;</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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