Re: sgml cleanup: unescaped '>' characters

On lör, 2011-09-03 at 16:47 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On tor, 2011-09-01 at 17:31 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > > On tor, 2011-09-01 at 14:17 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > > > > That still leaves open why we bother about escaping <.
> > > > >
> > > > > The problem is that I often add SGML that has:
> > > > >
> > > > > if (1 < 0) ...
> > > > >
> > > > > I need something to warn me about those, especially in the release
> > > > > notes.
> > > >
> > > > Why do you need to be warned about that?
> > >
> > > If I have:
> > >
> > > if (1 < fred)
> > >
> > > it will think "fred" is a SGML tag, no?
> >
> > No, a < followed by a space is not a tag, it's character data. If it
> > thought it were a tag, it would complain.
>
> Sometimes it is '<' (in single quotes), which I thought would be a
> problem.

The bottom line is, the SGML parser can figure that out itself, and if
it has a problem, it will complain. We don't need to second guess it
with regular expressions that are handcrafted out of thin air.

I was hoping you would remember whether you initially put this in
because of some tool problem. But if we are not finding any supporting
evidence, I would suggest that we just scrap this thing entirely.