- From: Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:11:37 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
2007/12/10, j.j.: > Thomas Broyer hodd gsachd: > > > That being said, I'm really not convinced that XMP is needed at all: > > you only have to do a search/replace for & to & (you're already > > doing it anyway) and < to < (other characters don't need any > > special treatment). > > It's a great benefit ecpecially (but not only) for inexperienced > authors. That's where our opinions diverge. Newbie: how do I show some HTML code in an HTML page? If I just copy/paste my code, it's interpreted by the browser. I.e. I don't want bold text, I want the string <strong> to appear. You: enclose your HTML code in <xmp> and </xmp> tags Me: search/replace all your < into <. Now, you should also enclose the whole thing inside <code>, and if you want your spaces and line breaks to be preserved, use a <pre> (you might already know both). > And author's requirements have currently higher priority for > us than theoretical purity. > <http://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/#priority-of-constituencies> It's not a matter of theoretical purity: Newbie: cool! now how can I make some parts bold, or blue? It's for a step-by-step tutorial and I want to put in relief the changes from one example to the other. You: er, you can't, at least with <xmp>... Me: just use markup within your <pre><code>. (actually, I doubt the newbie would have even asked, he probably would have found the solution himself; with xmp, he would have been disappointed surely) -- Thomas Broyer
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