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From: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Gabriele Bartolini <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Uppercase SGML entity declarations
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 16:26:07 -0400
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On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Excerpts from Gabriele Bartolini's message of lun abr 04 13:18:21 -0400 2011:
>> Il 04/04/11 18:37, Tom Lane ha scritto:
>> > AFAIK, the main stumbling block for that is that XML doesn't allow
>> > abbreviated close tags (ie,<foo>whatever</>).  Which is something that
>> > we are not likely to give up.  So I'm not sure of the point of changing
>> > something as trivial as entity declaration casing.  You're going to end
>> > up having to fork the documentation anyway, or at least feed it through
>> > an SGML to XML converter.  So why not fix the entity casing then?
>> We do it. However, given that the files that have been changed are
>> edited very rarely, the scope of the patch is limited and compatibility
>> with SGML is kept, I thought changing this at source level would be
>> something to propose and submit.
>
> Given the lack of objections, I have pushed this patch.  Thanks.

I think you still need to update Solution.pm to match.

-- 
Robert Haas
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