Re: sgml in help dir (was Re: Hello)

[Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 04:46:24PM +0100, Telsa Gwynne wrote:

> Or maybe we got it right :)
> 
> We decided a good while ago to ensure that we didn't use SGML-only
> tricks in order to make the transition to XML smooth. There was quite
> a list: most of them didn't affect us and we were doing a lot of the
> rest anyway. I think one example is that SGML lets you do end-tag
> minimisation (<demo>like this</>) and XML doesn't. Stuff like that.


IIRC, there was one more problem: with tags like <xref> which do not
require closing tag in SGML, but do require one in XML. I believe in
most our docs <xref> is used without closing tags. 

Sasha