Posting Code Snippets

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  mkwyche · Member · Jul 17, 2016 at 11:53 am

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  Asked a Happiness Engineer this but figure I post my question in here as well.

  I’m having some problems using the [code] tag in my posts. The code tag is discussed here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/ . It works fine with Java but when you post languages like XML or R characters will be reformatted when you switch between 'Visual' and 'html' sections of making a blog post.

  For example, If I post this in html:

  [code language='xml']
  <beans xmlns='http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans'
  xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
  xmlns:camel='http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring'
  xsi:schemaLocation='
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
  http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd'&gt;

  <camelContext xmlns='http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring'>
  </camelContext>
  </beans>
  [/code]

  Then switch back to 'Visual' view to continue typing my post from the visual editor. Eventually the Illegal html characters will be reformatted(i.e. < become <). Is this avoidable is there another tag I can use?

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