Bug 210724 - [formatting] <xmp> tag content should not be formatted?
Summary: [formatting] <xmp> tag content should not be formatted?
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: WTP Source Editing
Classification: WebTools
Component: wst.html (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: Future   Edit
Assignee: Nick Sandonato CLA
QA Contact: Nick Sandonato CLA
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Keywords: helpwanted
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Reported: 2007-11-23 03:51 EST by David Williams CLA
Modified: 2013-06-19 11:13 EDT (History)
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example file from our own website (21.22 KB, text/plain)
2007-11-23 03:51 EST, David Williams CLA 		no flags Details
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Description David Williams CLA 2007-11-23 03:51:42 EST 
Created attachment 83608 [details]
example file from our own website

I found a file that is HTML, but, it has <xmp> sections to show snippets of PHP and JavaScript code. Our HTML or Javascript formatter is attempting to format those sections, and fails (with a NPE). 

In this case formatters need to be smart enough to know not to touch any code in an xmp section ... since it would be very very hard to always know what content it _really_ was (e.g. may be always be a complete, valid snippet of code).
Comment 1 Amy Wu CLA 2008-10-27 04:28:44 EDT 
reassigning to inbox
Comment 2 Nitin Dahyabhai CLA 2009-01-13 23:42:14 EST 
It's a deprecated tag from HTML 3.2, but it still would be a good idea to avoid its contents.