Markup spec/BNF/Noparse-block

The &lt;nowiki&gt; tag prevents special markup (like  ''  for italics) from being recognized.

             ::=     [ | (?=EOF) ]      ::= "&lt;nowiki" ( ) "&gt;"      ::= "&lt;/nowiki"  "&gt;"             ::=

In words, if a &lt;nowiki&gt; tag is not closed, then it is taken to run until the end. (?=EOF) is a look-ahead assertion, like in PCRE. It asserts that an EOF follows, but does not consume the EOF.

Translating to HTML
To translate a nowiki tag to HTML, perform the following transformations: , and each paragraph being trimed. --HappyDog 15:11, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 *  is replaced with &lt;p&gt;
 *  is replaced with &lt;/p&gt;
 *  terminals within  are replaced with the appropriate  (see Fundamental elements).
 * The elements in the top-level <nowiki-tag> are discarded.
 * Actually, this is not true. The <nowiki-body> is treated as paragraphs of text, as in the main tag, with blank lines being replaced with