Subject: Re: no more SGML empty tags
To: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>
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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 08:17:08 -0400
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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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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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