Display doctype tag in html

Question

I'm trying to display a few lines of xml in a manual to be copied and pasted. However, I cannot find a way to display

<!doctype login[ ... 

and a few other xml tags. I cannot have extra characters or such, as a client will copy and paste the code. Htmlentities doesn't solve the issue.

Anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

A solution I found was to put parts of the tag in their own spans.

<span><</span><span>!</span>DOCTYPE <span>></span>

displays a doctype tag properly.

properly