Did the code tag implementation change?

Question

Over in the UIX forum, we have been relying on the ability to embed XML content inside of a "code" tag - and for as long as I can remember this would automatically escape HTML/XML start/end tags so that they would be displayed in the message content. For example, users have been posting uiXML samples like this:
(Note, in this sample I have added a trailing whitespace in the opening code tag so that the forum software will display the tag instead of interpret it. Also, I have explicitly escaped < and > myself so that they will be displayed.)
[code ]
<messageTextInput id="whatever"
name="neededName"
prompt="Prompt 2">
<boundMessage select="error2"/>
</messageTextInput>
Previously, the code tag would automatically handle escaping the open/close tag characters (< and >) to the appropriate character entities (< and >). This no longer seems to be happening. The end result is that embedded XML code is sent back to the browser unescaped, and ends up being interpreted by the browser as HTML - which generally makes such content unreadable. Here is what the above sample looks like now:
[code ]
<messageTextInput id="whatever"
name="neededName"
prompt="Prompt 2">
<boundMessage select="error2"/>
</messageTextInput>
This change in behavior has two really bad consequences:
1. This is making it very difficult to post uiXML samples, which means that users are having a hard time posting test cases, and the UIX team is having a hard time posting sample solutions.
2. We have a large number of code samples that have been posted to the forum over the last year or so. All of these samples are now unreadable.
Was there a change in behavior in how the code tag handles HTML/XML escaping? Can we get the old behavior back?
Andy

Answer 1

I really didn't mean to have smiley faces in my post - another interesting feature! What I meant to say was:
"Previously, the code tag would automatically handle escaping the open/close tag characters, &lt; and &gt; , to the appropriate character entities: &amp;lt; and &amp;gt;."
And actually, I forgot to take the whitespace out of my sample code tag - let me try posting the sample code one more time, this time inside of an actual code tag:
<messageTextInput id="whatever"
                  name="neededName"
                  prompt="Prompt 2">
  <boundMessage select="error2"/>
</messageTextInput>Andy