This is a significant usability issue that I raised over a year ago (http://old.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Dev/SyntaxProcessingIssues). Because of XWiki's multiple rendering engine support, escaping the syntax is harder than it should be. It was scheduled to be addressed for the 1.0 release, but I was disappointed to see that addressing this has been bumped back to 1.1:

http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-208
 
Still, I'm glad to see determined movement towards a final 1.0 release, and hopefully this issue can be addressed in the 1.1 release.
 
Stephen

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> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:06:00 +1100
> From: John.Turner3@team.telstra.com
> To: xwiki-users@objectweb.org
> Subject: RE: [xwiki-users] Is there a way to escape XWiki syntax?
>
> Try enclosing the wiki markup with {pre}...{/pre} as well as
> {code}...{code}; also try putting a back slash (\) before the hash/pound
> (#) character.
>
> JT
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Peter Flynn [mailto:pflynn@adobe.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 December 2006 8:43 AM
> To: xwiki-users@objectweb.org
> Subject: [xwiki-users] Is there a way to escape XWiki syntax?
>
>
>
> Hi, I'm new at this. I've been trying to figure out a way to write some
> example wiki pages that explain the XWiki syntax better to my users.
> However, the XWiki engine always seems to want to interpret the markup
> rather than showing it as a literal.
>
>
>
> For example, if I do:
>
> {code}
>
> 1.1 This is how to create a heading
>
> {code}
>
>
>
> The "1.1" is not visible on the page, and the heading is rendered fully
> styled. This also happens with markup such as "#includeTopic". You can
> see an example of the problem here as well:
>
> http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/TuTAddSearch
>
>
>
> Is there any way to really make XWiki ignore a block of text?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
>
> - Peter Flynn
>

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