Show XML tags in HTML

N

Nick Locke

I have a need to display some XML without IE interpreting the tags. I want
something like this:

<html>
<head><title>xxxx</title></head>
<body>
<h1>hhhhhhh</h1>
<p>oooooo</p>
<xmltag>Hello World</xmltag>
<p>oooooo</p>
</body>
</html>

At the moment, that renders as:

hhhhhhhh
oooooo
Hello World
oooooo

Whereas what I need is:

hhhhhhhh
oooooo
<xmltag>Hello World</xmltag>
oooooo

I have tried wrapping the XML in <pre></pre> and <blockquote></blockquote>
and both still just lose the tags. View Source works fine, but I need to
see the tags within the page itself.

Ideas welcome!

Thanks, Nick.
 
B

Ben C

I have a need to display some XML without IE interpreting the tags. I want
something like this:

<html>
<head><title>xxxx</title></head>
<body>
<h1>hhhhhhh</h1>
<p>oooooo</p>
<xmltag>Hello World</xmltag>
<p>oooooo</p>
</body>
</html> [...]
Whereas what I need is:

hhhhhhhh
oooooo
<xmltag>Hello World</xmltag>
oooooo

I have tried wrapping the XML in <pre></pre> and <blockquote></blockquote>
and both still just lose the tags. View Source works fine, but I need to
see the tags within the page itself.

Ideas welcome!
Click to expand...

&lt;xmltag&gt;Hello world&lt;/xmltag&gt;
 
J

Jukka K. Korpela

Scripsit Nick Locke:
I have a need to display some XML without IE interpreting the tags.
Click to expand...

If you were not able to figure that out on your own, are you really
competent to write documents about XML issues? After all, XML has just the
same principle in this respect as HTML does. At the minimum, the "<"
character must be written using an entity reference or a character
reference. Any "&" character must be "escaped" in a similar manner. There's
no need to "escape" the ">" character, but people usually do that, for
symmetry.
 
G

GreatArtist

I think you're not competent to write messages on Usenet until you
stop being an asshole.
 
B

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

GreatArtist said:
I think you're not competent to write messages on Usenet until you
stop being an asshole.
Click to expand...

Who isn't competent? You didn't quote anything.

Well, if as I suspect it was Jukka, consider this: once you get past
the brusqueness of his posts, you will find sound advice. Relax a bit,
read carefully. Take your meds if necessary.
 
J

Jukka K. Korpela

Scripsit Beauregard T. Shagnasty:
Who isn't competent? You didn't quote anything.
Click to expand...

Well, this was rather obvious: "GreatArtist" used the pronoun "you" in the
generic sense, referring to any person - and, in this, particularly
applicable to "GreatArtist" himself/herself/itself.
 

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