While japhy's idea is a good one, I note that the <xmp> tag is not on the Perl Monks approved HTML tag list. While I'm sure it'll work for now, I'm not sure what (if anything) changes might be planned for that. It's conceiveable, though, that future changes to the handling of the approved tags would break any nodes using that tag.

Personally, I've not had much trouble formatting my nodes with the approved tags. I'll admit that I try to keep things simple, primarily using few tags. Since many sources tell us to separate content from presentation, this seems a wise course. You might, perhaps, consider creating templates in your editor for nodes you want to post or to define macros to help streamline formatting chores.

I'd be leery of raw html. After all, there are many "tricks" out there and supporting a limited subset of "valid" HTML strikes me a good way of keeping most of those from being utilized against us. It's not that I distrust any of the regulars, however, I'd be nervous about providing the trollish more opportunities to create havoc.

My two cents worth...

--f

P.S. I note that tachyon's code needs two tweaks. Specifically:

In reply to Re: rawhtml tag by footpad
in thread rawhtml tag by princepawn

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
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