Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DED81337BD1; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 12:15:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 30667-03; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 15:15:35 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC1721337BD4; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 12:15:34 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p34FFUu6029954; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:15:30 -0400 (EDT) To: Gabriele Bartolini cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Uppercase SGML entity declarations In-reply-to: <4D998B49.8050000@2ndQuadrant.it> References: <4D998B49.8050000@2ndQuadrant.it> Comments: In-reply-to Gabriele Bartolini message dated "Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:11:37 +0200" Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:15:30 -0400 Message-ID: <29953.1301930130@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201104/15 X-Sequence-Number: 6586 Gabriele Bartolini writes: > I have made very small modifications to a few files in the > documentation directory, which involve SGML entity declarations. > Currently they are all written lowercase, the patch makes them > uppercase. This won't affect SGML parsing, as SGML is case insensitive - > even though it is a good practice to write SGML declarations in uppercase. What's the point of this exactly? I don't think we'd accept changing every tag in the documentation to upper case, so why should we change a small subset of them? regards, tom lane