Visual format problem

suresh_anand

I am trying to use preserve chars tags.
I want to preserve "<" and ">"

So i used like this in visualformatconfig.xml


<clean charencode="utf-8" cr="cr" lf="lf" showonsize="5000" preferfonttag="false" reducetags="true"/>
<preservechars value="&lt;&gt;"/>

<!-- publish options are "minimal", "cleanhtml", "xhtml" -->
<standard autoclean="true" publish="cleanhtml">
<style publishstyles="false" href="[eWebEditProPath]/ektnormal.css" preservewordstyles="true"/>
<cmd name="cmdfontcolor" key="fontcolor" ref="cmdFC" enabled="true"/>
<command name="cmdfontname" style="list" maxwidth="12" enabled="true">
<caption localeRef="cmdFNm"/>
<tooltiptext localeRef="cmdFNm"/>


But still "<" is getting converted to "&lt;" and ">" is converted to "&gt;"

How to use this?

LooseCannon

The following is from www.w3schools.com

Escape Characters
Illegal XML characters have to be replaced by entity references.

If you place a character like "<" inside an XML element, it will generate an error because the parser interprets it as the start of a new element. You cannot write something like this:

<message>if salary < 1000 then</message>


To avoid this, you have to replace the "<" character with an entity reference, like this:

<message>if salary &lt; 1000 then</message>


There are 5 predefined entity references in XML:

&lt; < less than
&gt; > greater than
&amp; & ampersand
&apos; ' apostrophe
&quot; " quotation mark

Entity references always start with the "&" character and end with the ";" character.
Note: Only the characters "<" and "&" are strictly illegal in XML. Apostrophes, quotation marks and greater than signs are legal, but it is a good habit to replace