- From: Tim Bagot <tsb-w3-html-0002@earth.li>
- Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 18:42:15 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
At 2001-03-27T18:37-0500, Christopher Mark Balz wrote:- > I am perturbed to hear that the <XMP> tag might be removed from HTML. I use > it often to dump HTML output to a browser window - it is extremely handy. > With only the <PRE> tag, I'd have to do a regexp operation to replace angle > brackets, etcetera. It already has been removed in HTML 4.0 - it was deprecated by 3.2, and even in 2.0 it was mildly discouraged. In fact, you should still have to escape at least some markup, since the first occurrence of </ marks the end of the element. > What is the current status of a tag that will allow a pure text dump to the > browser window? In XHTML you can use CDATA sections. (See [1] or [2].) In fact, you can theoretically do this in HTML too, but web browsers mostly do not support it. You still need to escape the string ']]>', but this is likely to be less of a problem. [1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.8> [2] <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-cdata-sect> Tim Bagot
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