XMP tag has been deprecated since HTML3.2

I found this library to be very useful, and one of my colleagues used it to help us build API documentation that didn’t require us to replace all of the > and < with > and &lt. In fact, I see it as a competitor to static-site generator tools like Jekyll, Octopress, and DocPad. In fact, that’s exactly what we did with our API documentation. we used Strapdown.js to create a static page.

However, it recently came to my attention that <xmp has been deprecated since HTML3.2.

Should you consider using a non-deprecated tag in this library, such as <pre> or <code> as suggested by the Mozilla HTML documentation on XMP?

Note: Do not use this element.

• It has been deprecated since HTML3.2 and was not implemented in a consistent way. It was completely removed from the language in HTML5.
• Use the <pre> element or, if semantically adequate, the <code> element instead. Note that you will need to escape the '<' character as '<' to make sure it is not interpreted as markup.
• A monospaced font can also be obtained on any element, by applying an adequate CSS style using monospace as the generic-font value for the font-family property.

[mookid8000]

<template> is meant for HTML code that is not readily rendered by a client, but instead leaves it in the DOM for scripts to manipulate.

Since any content is allowed, it’s an obvious candidate as an alternative to the deprecated <xmp> tag.

[jbenner-radham]

That’s a good point. Although it’s not uncommon to see markup in text/x-template tags for various template systems like Handlebars, Vue, etc. it’s not the most semantic implementation I agree. The only other thing I could think of would be something like <template class="markdown">.