Re: Documentation templates and references

[Joakim Ziegler <joakim styx net>]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 02:58:09PM +0000, Telsa Gwynne wrote:

> Please can we suggest that
> 	(a) Ending tags with </> is a bad idea unless it's clearly
>     obvious exactly what it refers to at first glance. Really clearly
>     obvious. 

Actually, you should try to avoid them altogether. The Davenport Group is
going to move DocBook to XML sooner or later, probably sooner, as a beta DTD
already exists, and XML doesn't support </>. In fact, if you avoid this and a
couple of other SGML-specific constructs, you'll be able to port the SGML
documents to XML without any changes (except the header) when that day comes.

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