Re: sgml cleanup

Brent Verner writes:

>   In trying to get the doc/ tree in cvs to build, I noticed a _lot_ of
> empty closing tags when I ran
>
>   sh$ nsgmls -s -wall ./book-decl.sgml ./reference.sgml

The -wall option isn't very useful.  Empty closing tags are perfectly
legal.  I don't know if they're good style, but as long as you don't
exaggerate I don't feel that they aren't.  They're not allowed in XML,
though.

>   Anyone care to share the details of the patched docbook2man-spec.pl
> file mentioned in doc/src/Makefile.in?  Do these modifications fix the
> problems seen above?

The man pages for release 7.1 where built with docbook2X 0.6.1 plus the
patch available on my web page[1].  7.2 is probably going to be the same.

[1] http://webmail.postgresql.org/~petere/docbook2man.html

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