On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Jos Groot Lipman <donts...@home.nl> wrote:

> >>
> >>"The <verbatim> tag works like <pre> with the addition that it also
> >>disables all wiki and HTML markup through the matching </verbatim>."
> >>
> >>But why this special tag? Is this not something the <pre> should do
> >>under all circumstances? When would you ever want wiki or HTML markup
> >>inside a <pre>? That contradicts the primary reason of existance for
> >>the <pre> tag.
> >
> >No, it doesn't. The pre tag preseves layout, but not other formatting.
> >It's valid and common to change fonts inside of a pre tag.
> >And I'm anal enough about my html to run an editor that does on-the-fly
> validation.
>

Which causes me to ask - does any have a schema for fossil wiki/html
combination?


> Thanks, I did not realize that. I believe I got <pre> mixed up with <xmp>
> (deprecated in HTML 4.0 and rightfully not supported by Fossil Wiki)
>
> So <verbatim> is more like the combination <nowiki><xmp>. I will start
> using
> <verbatim>


I think of it more as <pre><!<CDATA[ section, but that's the idea.

    <mike


>
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