On Lun 6 février 2006 20:08, Tobias Toedter a écrit : >> The point with #verbatim# is the fact that this is not used in any >> language (or if it does, I wonder which) >> >> Also, it highlight the idea of the string being some kind of comment >> which wont show up in the end. > > To me, it's not a comment, but a special tag used for the markup, like > three > '=' signs are the tag for a level 3 heading. Moreover, if the parsing > fails > for some reason, <verbatim> will not show up in the browser, because it's > recognized as an unknown HTML tag. #verbatim# on the other hand will be > displayed.
I think worse to have an unknown HTML tag in a page while it is not an HTML tag than having a text only tag that means what we want. Also, using < > will also create additional issues with XML files. -- Mathieu
