Re: Release.sgml markup - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Release.sgml markup
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.56.0307171014150.1898@krusty.credativ.de
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In response to Release.sgml markup  (Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>)
Responses Re: Release.sgml markup  (Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>)
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Rod Taylor wrote:

> Replace <sectN> with <section>,

Why?

> update older style formatting to match
> the newer style, escape all the appropriate places with <![CDATA[ ...
> ]]> (easier than properly converting characters to escaped format).

Better replace all those with real <itemizedlist> elements, because the
current markup is kind of silly and leads to problems when formatting the
plain-text renditions.

> All of this was done to make it possible to run some automated
> processing on the file.

What stops you from automated processing now?

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net

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