| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: sgml and "empty" closing tags |
| Date: | 2009-11-17 03:41:37 |
| Message-ID: | 19135.1258429297@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> While looking over the writable cte patch I noticed queries.sgml has
> lots of things in the form "<literal>FROM</>". I tried various
> googles to see if </> is some kind of sgml/xml shorthand for close the
> last opened tag. But alas, nothing found. Bad google foo?
Apparently --- it's perfectly legal in SGML. (I think not in XML.)
> Should we change those to be the right closing tag? aka </literal>
You'd be wasting your time.
I don't think it's good style to use </> when the opening tag is far
away or there are other tags between. But for examples like the one
you cite, it's perfectly reasonable.
regards, tom lane
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