Re: XML DocBook patch

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Toshio Kuratomi <badger prtr-13 ucsc edu> writes:

> Enclosed is a patch that enables gives gtkdoc-mkdb a new output flag:
> --output-format=[xml|sgml]
> When --output-format=xml is given gtkdoc-mkdb spits out xml output as xml
> rather than sgml (The only difference thus far is that gtkdoc-mkdb closes
> the anchor and colspec tags and using .xml as the file extension.)
> 
> There are also commented out changes that would move the default output
> directory from ./sgml to ./docbook.  I think this is a more logical
> directory name but I think it'll require some updates to client makefiles so
> I disabled it for now.

I was looking over this patch (very much later....) and I'm wondering...
Why can't we just always close the tags? 

If we did that, the only effect of the --output-format switch would
be the extension of the generated files?

Regards,
                                        Owen