On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Julian Reschke <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2014-06-16 18:29, Jukka Zitting wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> [resurrecting an old thread, since it seems we still have some
>> affected javadocs in Oak]
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Jukka Zitting <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> A trivially minor, but long-standing annoyance of mine seems to be
>>> creeping over from Jackrabbit to Oak:
>>>
>>> For some reason people are using "<p/>" as a paragraph break in
>>> Javadoc comments. That's wrong on many levels. Javadoc comments are in
>>> HTML, not XHTML, so the self-closing "<p/>" is strictly speaking
>>> invalid. And even if they were in XHTML, "<p/>" would indicate a
>>> separate, empty paragraph instead starting a new paragraph. I have no
>>> idea where this convention comes from.
>>>
>>> So, if it's not too much to ask, use "<p>" instead of "<p/>" when
>>> starting a new paragraph in javadoc. It'll make my inner perfectionist
>>> feel better when browsing source code.
>>
>>
>> Avoiding this anti-pattern will also prevent problems with Java 8,
>> where the javadoc tool will by default refuse to accept such comments.
>> See https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8020619.
>
>
> Maybe we should try to do an automated global replace?

...and add a checkstyle rule?

regards, toby

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