Bug: Instead of suggesting PRE tag try suggesting XMP tag (or suggest both)

In various TWiki examples it's stated that users can use the html tag,

• {PRE} this is unformatted text {/PRE}

kind of tag. Well, there's a little known tag called XMP (left over from HTML 1.0 I think!) which works even better (depending on what you want):

• PRE will not format whitespace, but will process html inside the PRE
• XMP will not format whitespace and will also not process html inside the XMP

Thus,

• PRE is good for preformatted text,
• XMP is great for snippets of source code

Test case

• For example I usually use XMP to quote source code. Then I don't have to worry about the pointy brackets in my source code messing up the browser. Example:

• here I will put similar text as above but in PRE and notice that the html is interpretted.

    here I can put lots of < and > and I might worry because the 
  browser may interpret things including internal markup like bold or italic
   

-- TWikiGuest - 28 Dec 2001

<xmp> is not a valid HTML tag, see 4.0 element list at http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/index/elements.html

TWiki actually has the <verbatim> tag, it does what you want to accomplish with the XMP tag.

-- PeterThoeny - 31 Dec 2001