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by gioele 3602 days ago
> <xmp> is great when you absolutely, positively, do not want any entities rendered under any circumstances. It's unfortunate that it's being deprecated, since it has its uses.

  <![CDATA[ here &entities; or <angle|<brackets>> will not interpreted ]]>
There is no need for special-casing xmp, when SGML and XML already define CDATA escapes.