Re: sgml cleanup: unescaped '>' characters

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On l?r, 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.

I put it in to warn about release.sgml markup problems, so I properly
escaped all non-tag '>' and '<' characters.

I have removed the tool. We can always re-add it if we find it is
needed.

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