Re: Release.sgml markup

From: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Release.sgml markup
Date: 2003-07-19 17:45:04
Message-ID: 1058636703.55079.26.camel@jester
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Second try.. GZipped patches were rejected due to size, but BZip'd ones
should get through.

On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 13:42, Rod Taylor wrote:
> Attached is the new file based on itemizedlists blocks, and simplelist
> blocks for the names.
>
> Simplelist was used with the intent that stylesheets would dictate
> surrounding brackets at some point in the future.
>
> - The few email addresses in the file were surrounded with <email> tags
> - Release 6.4 had an area requiring sub-itemizedlists (rule work)
>
> Attached is the 7.3.1 HTML (enough to show impact of changes) and the
> patch itself.
>
> On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 04:16, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > 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?

Attachment Content-Type Size
release-7-3-1.html.bz2 application/x-bzip 1.6 KB
release.sgml.patch.bz2 application/x-bzip 72.0 KB

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