xml in pre tag

[mrtea]

I want to read a pre tag with xml. I am working client side. I have tried everything. The <title> tag gets lost with innerHTML(ok in FF only). I tried traversing the dom and putting in the tag names but the title tag is ignored. I am trying to syntax highlight this. Everything works if I do not use certain html tags. How do I get raw text from the pre? The text would come from one of two sources, a server or inputted into a textarea by the user. It is dynamically placed in the div tag and then processed.

<div id="xml">

<pre>
<collection>
 <cd>
  <title>Fight for your mind</title>
  <artist>Ben Harper</artist>
  <year>1995</year>
 </cd>
 <cd>
  <title>Electric Ladyland</title>
  <artist>Jimi Hendrix</artist>
  <year>1997</year>
 </cd>
</collection>
</pre>

</div>

[rnd me]

you have to escape the xml before it goes in the pre tag.
for example, you need to turn ">" into "&gt;", "<" into "&lt;" and so on...

you can also use a textarea, which can contain any XML except "</textarea>", but you can't highlight the textatrea text.

[mrtea]

you have to escape the xml before it goes in the pre tag.
for example, you need to turn ">" into "&gt;", "<" into "&lt;" and so on...

you can also use a textarea, which can contain any XML except "</textarea>", but you can't highlight the textatrea text.

Yes, the escaping was being done when pulling from the server or textarea. I tried the textarea tag but I use it in a textarea so the second tag killed that as you mentioned.

It turned out that the problem was a combination of sequence of processing and cache issues. It has been resolved. Thanks.