posts containing xml snippets

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  tcdev · Member · Jan 23, 2007 at 2:07 pm

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  Hi,

  I can’t seem to post correctly posts containing snippets of xml. I’d like to use use the code tag for formatting along the lines of
  <code>
<books><book author="fred" title="life of fred"/></books>
</code>

  but the xml gets stripped out and the tags remain when I publish the post.

  Has anyone any ideas on how to do accomplish this correctly

  Thanks in advance

  Tom

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  engtech · Member · Jan 23, 2007 at 10:37 pm

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  Posting code examples is a HUGE headache.

  Try this tool: http://www.destraynor.com/c2h.html

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  tcdev · Member · Jan 24, 2007 at 8:19 am

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  Thanks engtech

  I should of realised I needed to use change the < and > characters to use the > and < escape sequences !

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  engtech · Member · Jan 26, 2007 at 2:42 pm

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  Did this work out for you?

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  engtech · Member · Jan 26, 2007 at 2:46 pm

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  Assuming that you were talking about this post, http://tcdev.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/getting-reflector-to-run-using-the-correct-runtime/

  it looks like there’s still problems with smartquotes that would prevent the code from being cut-and-pastable.

  I never did figure out how to get past smartquotes: http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=5755&replies=5

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  engtech · Member · Jan 30, 2007 at 4:21 am

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  Wrapping the code in a <PRE> will prevent smartquotes. Wrapping the code in a <TEXTAREA> will not.

  Combining PRE and TEXTAREA will crash your web browser if you try to edit the post again (and doesn’t fix the problem).

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  tcdev · Member · Jan 31, 2007 at 10:54 am

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  Using the <pre> tags seems to the simplest way of posting cut and paste code

  Thanks