Re: sgml and "empty" closing tags - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: sgml and "empty" closing tags
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Msg-id 4B021C31.5070606@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: sgml and "empty" closing tags  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com> writes:
>   
>> 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?
>>     
>
> Apparently --- it's perfectly legal in SGML.  (I think not in XML.)
>   

Correct on both counts.

cheers

andrew


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