From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 13 13:59:54 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from aldan.algebra.com (aldan.algebra.com [216.254.65.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C209E37B402; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:59:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from aldan.algebra.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aldan.algebra.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2DM013b088744; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:00:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mi@aldan.algebra.com) Message-Id: <200203132200.g2DM013b088744@aldan.algebra.com> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:00:01 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha proc-alpha.sgml To: des@ofug.org Cc: ue@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13 Mar, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Mikhail Teterin writes: >> On 13 Mar, Udo Erdelhoff 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? > > Depends on the DTD and the element in question. Some tags (like
> in HTML) don't need a closing tag, some (like in HTML) do. So, was it neccessary for our DTD? > In XML, all elements need a closing tag, unless the element is empty, > in which case you can use the short form, like
- note that the > space is required by the specification, though not all XML parsers > will complain if it's missing. Thanks for the detailed answer. -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message