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1. kfsone
   Member
   Jul 22, 2008, 7:18 AM

   If you have a [sourcecode language='c++'] section which includes a single LESS THAN symbol (e.g. in a for loop) and then you have a blockquote section after the [/sourcecode] WordPress keeps eating the /blockquote close tag. pre, code and i all seemed to be unaffected and any subsequent blockquotes. The outline of my post was this: ('{' and '}' indicating "some quantity of")

   8x --- snip --- x8

   { preamble }

   [sourcecode language='c++']// A comment
   // Some code
   for ( i = 0 ; i < 10 ; ++i )
   {
   // some stuff
   }
   [/sourcecode]

   Under Windows:

   {
    some output lines
   }

   <b>

   </b>

   Under Linux/Mac:
   `
   

   {
    some other output
   }

   8x --- snip --- x8

   The first /blockquote, emphasized in bold (assuming I have any clue at how this is going to get formatted) would get eaten every time I saved no matter what I did until I replaced the < with != which is certainly <i>a</i> solution but is a bad coding practice I don't wish to encourage.

2. kfsone
   Member
   Jul 22, 2008, 7:21 AM

   Ok - that's amazing. I carefully replaced the angled-brackets around the tags with XML entities, and the only tags that didn't wind up marked up in the comment are the bold tags I wanted it to treat as markup... Bleah.

   OK, it should read:

   Under Windows:
   [blockquote][pre]{
   some output lines
   }[/pre]<b>[/blockquote]</b>

   Under Linux:
   [blockquote][pre]{
   some other output
   }[/pre][/blockquote]

3. kfsone
   Member
   Jul 25, 2008, 1:35 AM

   It turns out you can reproduce the problem with a much simpler example:

   [sourcecode language='c++']
   // comment with < symbol
   [/sourcecode]

   <em>The following tag will now get stripped if this example is posted into a wordpress blog:</em>

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