Entities in XML examples

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  xatapult · Member · Dec 2, 2009 at 9:30 am

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  Hi,

  I want to make a point about XML in my blog. I have a line in which I would like to SHOW an entity in code: ? :

  <p>What are you looking at?</p>

  However, The &#x3F keeps showing up as the question mark it stands for. So I tried escaping the ampersand:

  <p>What are you looking at?</p>

  However this does not help, somehow WordPress does a double convert and keeps showing this as the question mark (first converting the & to a & and then the resulting ? in a ?).

  How can I accomplish what I want: Have a ? show up as ? ?????

  Erik Siegel

  PS: I do not want to use the [sourcecode] trick because I don’t like its styling.
  But somehow WordPress keeps giving

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  xatapult · Member · Dec 2, 2009 at 9:31 am

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  All right, even in the blog postings this is formatted wrong… So I cannot even make my point. Grrr.

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  xatapult · Member · Dec 2, 2009 at 9:34 am

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  Try again without the semicolons at the end of the entities to prevend WOrdpress converting them:

  I want to make a point about XML in my blog. I have a line in which I would like to SHOW an entity in code: ? :

  What are you looking at&#x3F

  However, The &#x3F keeps showing up as the question mark it stands for. So I tried escaping the ampersand:

  <p>What are you looking at&amp#x3F</p>

  However this does not help, somehow WordPress does a double convert and keeps showing this as the question mark (first converting the &amp to a & and then the resulting &#x3F in a ?).

  How can I accomplish what I want: Have a &#x#F (plus semicolon) show up as &#x3F ?????

  Erik Siegel

  PS: I do not want to use the [sourcecode] trick because I don’t like its styling.