Difficulties in quoting codeblocks in blogspot

Code blocks are inserted between <code></code>

For lessthan symbol --
Entity references are similar, but use symbolic names to represent the characters. Entity references also have three parts:

* a leading ampersand character, (&),
* the name of the entity (in ascii characters)
* a terminating semicolon (;).

Thus the entity reference for less than symbol (<) is (& l t ;)-- with no space in between.