Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:22:38 +0100 From: Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha proc-alpha.sgml Message-ID: <20020313182237.GC90154@nathan.ruhr.de> In-Reply-To: <200203131806.g2DI6o3b087697@aldan.algebra.com> References: <200203131310.g2DDAMC29963@freefall.freebsd.org> <200203131806.g2DI6o3b087697@aldan.algebra.com>
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On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:06:50PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > - for each opening tag, there should be a closing tag > > My understanding was, the SGML does not require this. XML does... Is > that wrong? That depends on your definition of depends ;-) If you mean depend as in 'does it compile' then the answer is no, it does not need this. In this context (FreeBSD docs), the answer is yes. We do not use minimized closing tags (i.e. </>), either. And once you had to track down a 'Why does this thing look so strange?' problem in an sgml document, you know why. /s/Udo -- In a world without fences, who needs Gates? In a world without walls, who needs Windows? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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