From owner-cvs-share Sun Mar 2 08:49:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA20596 for cvs-share-outgoing; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 08:49:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA20589; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 08:49:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA19955; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 11:49:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 11:49:36 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Satoshi Asami 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 In-Reply-To: <199703021337.FAA11063@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-share@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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