HTML tags confusing XML parser

[Anon]

Hey everyone, i'm having a bit of a problem here and was wondering if anyone could help me out.

I'm writing a series of HTML tutorials for my website. The tutorials are marked up with XML, then stored in a database. The problem is i have HTML tags in my document such as < h1 >, < p > .etc used in examples, and the XML parser seems to be "removing" them.

Here's an example sentence from one of my tutorials:

"For example, the tag used to denote a paragraph, looks like: < p > ."

But once the XML parser is done with it, it reads:

"For example, the tag used to denote a paragraph, looks like: ."

Does anyone have any ideas how i could go about handeling this?

Thanks so much.

(BTW, please note that i don't have spaces inside my HTML tags in my tutorials, i just put them in here because i don't know how this forum will handel them)

[Anon]

try a <pre> around the tags, you wont have to space it that way....<pre><p></pre>

[Anon]

sorry the tag im trying to show didnt show up lol; here <pre><pre><p></pre></pre> hope it worked this time lol

[Anon]

crap; its a pre tag; just pre in a tag🙂
< pre > before the p tage and < /pre > once you want to get back to it understanding the html code