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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: helix84 <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: doc: Add anchors in create_table.sgml
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 10:35:20 -0300
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGdvKqgHpOwo2+XRY_1W_FF46UvuDe=zODN_iGiS7V4mfB-8gw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On 2020-Jan-02, helix84 wrote:

> Hi, I prefer to bookmark docs pointing to the exact term I need and
> with pg docs it's often been the case that the exact term doesn't have
> an anchor or only has unstable, generated anchors. So I would very
> much like to add stable anchors in many more places. I haven't
> contributed to pg before, so this patch is me testing the waters. If
> there is interest, I'd like to add stable anchors to wherever we'll
> agree it makes sense - preferably in an automated or semi-automated
> way.
> 
> I read an older thread on this topic [1] which links to a custom SGML
> parser in Python for this specific task [2]. I have experience with
> XSLT, but not so much with SGML processing, so I would appreciate if
> you could point me whether a custom parser is the way to go for this
> task or I should look into a more generic SGML processing tool.

Ah,
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected]
(We prefer our own archive to GMane's.)  That thread is so old that
Peter feels the need to point out that the Git mirror was out of date
with CVS ... I can no longer even remember the commit process for CVS
anymore.  We also converted from SGML to XML in the meantime, so you can
probably make do with a standard XML parser without having to write a
custom SGML one.  (Daniele Varrazzo's patch ended up as 477319829c2e.)

TBH I've felt the need for anchors for <varlistentry> tags in the
past also (IIRC the runtime-config page would be improved by them),
but I'm not sure about adding them to every single keyword of every
single reference page.  Is that really useful?

> Thanks in advance and let me take this opportunity to thank you all
> for this wonderful piece of software.

You're welcome.

-- 
Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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