pre Tag Doesnt Work With XML Tags

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I faced to a problem while i was writing a blogpost. I had xml tags in my blogpost and i tried to show them in <pre> tags.

 

<pre>

<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.5.1" >

      <buildProviders >
        <add extension=".htm" type="System.Web.Compilation.PageBuildProvider" >
      <buildProviders>

 <compilation>

</pre>  

When i open this in browser i saw nothing because pre tags had issue with ‘<‘ and ‘>’ characters.

I escape these characters with &lt; &gt; and it looks like;

<pre>

&lt;compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.5.1""&gt;

      &lt;buildProviders &gt;
        &lt;add extension=".htm" type="System.Web.Compilation.PageBuildProvider" &gt;
      &lt;buildProviders&gt;

 &lt;compilation&gt;  

</pre>

 

This was solution for me.