Re: no more SGML empty tags

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: no more SGML empty tags
Date: 2017-10-19 15:11:58
Message-ID: 1736.1508425918@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> In XML, empty tags such as </> are no longer allowed. In preparation
> for converting the documentation to DocBook XML, I have committed a
> patch that expands all such empty tags. There is also now a warning
> from onsgmls when empty tags are used. (There is no -werror option,
> unfortunately.)

I just want to point out that this patch has more or less entirely
destroyed any hope of cleanly back-patching documentation changes.

Should we consider applying the same transformation to the back
branches?

regards, tom lane

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