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Date:      Wed, 23 Oct 1996 08:59:27 -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 ports.sgml
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.961023083939.11655C-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199610230905.CAA07296@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Satoshi Asami wrote:

>   Close and open-ended <em>.  (Why isn't "<em" without any matching ">"
>   and "</em>" a syntax error?!?)

How may I confuse markup?  Let me count the ways!

  <em>foo</em>
  <em>foo</>
  <em/foo/

  <tag><em>foo</em></tag>
  <tag<em>foo</em</tag>
  <tag<em>foo</</>
  <tag<em/foo/</>
  <tag/<em/foo//

and probably a few others, but not

  <tag<em/foo//

Note that spaces inside the start tag following the tag name are
permitted.  

...and then there are SHORTREF and DATATAG options where what looks
like data are actually tags and You can obfuscate markup in ways like
this:

  <list>
  foo: blah blah
  bar: blah blah
  </list>

and have the SGML parser interpret it as

  <list>
  <tag>foo</tag> blah blah
  <tag>bar</tag> blah blah
  </list>

And now back to your regularly scheduled broadcast....

-john

== jfieber@indiana.edu ===========================================
== http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================




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