Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 11:49:36 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-share@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/doc/handbook contrib.sgml Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970302114020.18125C-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199703021337.FAA11063@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote: > Add Marc Slemko (marcs@znep.com) for his gopher patch. While I'm > here, add ">" to the end of Marc Ramirez (mrami@mramirez.sy.yale.edu)'s > e-mail address. SGML tip of the day... The way SGML parsing works, a > should never actually be needed as a replacement for >, as it will only be recognized as a tag delimiter while reading something that has already been identified as a tag. Similarly, a < only needs to be replaced by a < if immediately followed by a !, /, or [a-zA-Z]. (And & only needs to be escaped as & if followed by [a-zA-Z].) However, when writing HTML for direct consumption by typical browsers, it is pretty important to use <, > and & because browsers rarely, if ever, follow SGML parsing rules. :( (And it never hurts to use <, > and & in the handbook.) -john
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