Re: no more SGML empty tags

On 10/17/17 20:09, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>> 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.)
>
> Just out of curiosity, did you do the work (expanding the empty tags)
> manually or using some tools? We are using SGML DocBook in the
> Pgpool-II project and a little bit annoyed by the empty tags (for
> example emacs auto indentation does not work with empty tags).

I used the tools provided in the "Docbook 5.x" thread, in particular the
sgml2xml.pl script. I think you should be able to use that for your
documentation as well.

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