On ons, 2011-08-24 at 23:28 -0400, Josh Kupershmidt wrote: > I found myself rewriting the ./src/tools/find_gt_lt script in Perl > this evening, since the existing script was quite broken (the main > problem is it's not capable of understanding CDATA or sgml comment > sections, and hence produces a bunch of noise). > > The rewritten version picked up a few stylistic inconsistencies in the > SGML, such as: > * breaking the trailing '>' of an SGML marker across lines. AFAIK > this is legal, but is a bit inconsistent and just confuses simplistic > tools like find_gt_lt
The cases you show don't appear to be terribly useful, but I think on occasion this can be necessary to work around some arcane whitespace rules in SGML or XML. (Just look at the generated HTML; it uses this technique throughout.) > * using single quotes instead of double quotes to surround a node > attribute, as in <orderedlist numeration='loweralpha'> It would be better if the tool could handle that, because sometimes you want to use single quotes if the value contains double quotes. > as well as seemingly-invalid SGML, such as using '>' unescaped inside > normal SGML entries. Unescaped > is valid, AFAIK. -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
