Re: Important Docs Info!!

[jrb redhat com]

> On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 06:09:41PM -0500, David C. Mason wrote:
> > 
> > Docs people - please read!
> > 
> > There are a few tags in DocBook that are "empty" tags - which means
> > they do not enclose text. For example you can have <xref
> > linkend="foo"> and you do not have to close it. This *is* valid in
> > SGML.
> > 
> > With the work being done on our 'on the fly' DocBook to HTML engine
> > for the 2.0 help browser, and our impending move to DocBook XML, we
> > will need to start closing these tags in the way introduced in XML.
> 
>   yeah !!!
> It's a pain, it's a mess but cleaning has to be done only once !

and while we're cleaning up,
make sure that you do:
<![CDATA[...


<![CDATA [..., <![ CDATA [..., and <![ CDATA[...
are all invalid xml.

-Jonathan