From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Mar 13 10:29:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ruhr.de (in-ruhr4.ruhr.de [212.23.134.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7CA637B416 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:29:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 23079 invoked by uid 10); 13 Mar 2002 18:29:52 -0000 Received: (from ue@localhost) by nathan.ruhr.de (8.11.6/8.11.2) id g2DIMcY83887; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:22:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ue) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:22:38 +0100 From: Udo Erdelhoff To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: Mikhail Teterin Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha proc-alpha.sgml Message-ID: <20020313182237.GC90154@nathan.ruhr.de> Reply-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Mikhail Teterin References: <200203131310.g2DDAMC29963@freefall.freebsd.org> <200203131806.g2DI6o3b087697@aldan.algebra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200203131806.g2DI6o3b087697@aldan.algebra.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 freebsd-doc" in the body of the message