[Bug 12166] The requirement on the xmp element conflicts with its old definition (which requires a special parsing mode where no markup except the element's end tag is recognized) and usage. It is better to avoid requiring any support than to require support that bre from bugzilla@jessica.w3.org on 2011-03-04 (public-html-bugzilla@w3.org from March 2011)

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--- Comment #1 from Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3cbug@gmail.com> 2011-03-04 02:36:57 UTC ---
xmp is treated differently by the HTML parser, as its conventional meaning
requires.  See the part here labeled 'A start tag whose tag name is "xmp"':

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tokenization.html#parsing-main-inbody

A note to authors of this fact might be worthwhile, so that they don't have to
look into the parser section.

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