Re: About xmllint checking for the validity of postgres.xml in 9.5 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: About xmllint checking for the validity of postgres.xml in 9.5
Date
Msg-id CAB7nPqTuab3T-5jA8j_9SukVpn1nFi1J6XUuhB9FbpVXm_4ffQ@mail.gmail.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: About xmllint checking for the validity of postgres.xml in 9.5  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Michael Paquier wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Since commit 5d93ce2d, the output of xmllint is checked by passing
>> --valid to it. Isn't that a regression with what we were doing for
>> pre-9.4 versions? For example, with 9.4 and older versions it is
>> possible to compile man pages even if the xml spec is not entirely
>> valid when using docbook 4.2.
>
> I don't think this is a regression.  It just means we're stricter than
> before.  Is there a reason behind this tinkering?
Just got surprised by how we got strict on master when doing a build
of the docs using docbook 4.2 and some old versions of docbook-dsssl
and docbook-xsl: man pages can still compile even if the spec is not
exactly correct sometimes.
-- 
Michael



pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Alvaro Herrera
Date:
Subject: Re: Many processes blocked at ProcArrayLock
Next
From: Petr Jelinek
Date:
Subject: Re: Sequence Access Method WIP