On mån, 2009-11-16 at 20:30 -0700, Alex Hunsaker wrote:
> While looking over the writable cte patch I noticed queries.sgml has
> lots of things in the form "<literal>FROM</>". I tried various
> googles to see if </> is some kind of sgml/xml shorthand for close the
> last opened tag. But alas, nothing found. Bad google foo?
If you have DocBook installed locally, you should have a file called
docbook.dcl, which contains the "SGML declaration" of DocBook, and
somewhere down contains this:
FEATURES
MINIMIZE DATATAG NO OMITTAG NO RANK NO
SHORTTAGYES
So if you google for something like "markup minimization shorttag", you
can find more information.
For amusement, contrast this with the SGML declaration of HTML:
FEATURES MINIMIZE DATATAG NO OMITTAG YES <-- This is why you can omit <body>, for example. RANK NO
SHORTTAGYES
