From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: no more SGML empty tags
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 11:11:58 -0400
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Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.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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