On Jan 31, 2007, at 6:00 AM, Colin Barrett wrote:

On Jan 30, 2007, at 7:55 AM, Ciaran McNulty wrote:

On 1/30/07, anders conbere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would consider the rss and atom tools be not in accordance with the (x)html specs on this one. And I believe that muddying the code with
non-semantic tags makes is much more difficult to digest.

I'd argue that <br /> does have semantics for a number of languages, actually!

I would speculate, however, that most existing examples of code snippets are using <pre>. Adding <br />s is a lot of work if you're editing by hand.

For what it's worth, PHP's syntax highlighting (which I use to share source code) automatically adds <br /> (or <br> in older versions) for line breaks:

http://www.php.net/highlight_string

Peace,
Scott

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