Re: sgml cleanup

On 22 Nov 2001 at 18:21 (+0100), Peter Eisentraut wrote:
| 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.

gotcha.  When I hit problems with the man.tar build, I started looking
for /any/ cause.  The '</>' was the first thing I noticed.

| >   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

cool.  I ended up fixing up the newest (0.7.0) release of his script,
and finally did get man.tar built.  Is there any desire to distribute
a copy of the patched script in cvs?  This would make it much easier
for people who might want to package a given cvs snapshot...

I've attached a patch which adds a directory to search for docbook
stylesheets in the config/docbook.m4 if there is any interest in
supporting another platform for building the cvs docs.  This (in
addition to minor doc/src/Makefile mods[1]) allows me to build on
a debian (unstable) box.

[1] patch attached for this as well.

thanks.
  brent

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