Fletcher T. Penney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 9/13/06 at 6:29 AM:
> Perhaps I am ignoring something obvious - but when does `<<` ever
> occur in XHTML? Shouldn't it be a safe assumption that Markdown
> should convert any string of multiple `<`'s in a row into `<`'s?
This is perhaps a contrived example, but if someone put this in a
Markdown document:
<<?php print "p";?>>
they might reasonably expect the output to be:
<p>
not:
<<?php print "p";?>>
We can't have it both ways. The current "if it looks like a tag,
Markdown treats it as a tag" rule seems simpler and more obvious
to me than your proposed "if it looks like a tag, it's treated as
a tag, unless the angle brackets are in a consecutive run of other
angle brackets, in which case they're all treated as literal angle
brackets" rule.
-J.G.
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