Re: [HACKERS] DOCS: SGML identifier may not exceed 44 characters

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] DOCS: SGML identifier may not exceed 44 characters
Date: 2011-05-31 16:13:35
Message-ID: 28597.1306858415@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>> Excerpts from Brendan Jurd's message of mar may 31 02:17:22 -0400 2011:
>>> openjade:information_schema.sgml:828:60:Q: length of name token must
>>> not exceed NAMELEN (44)

>> Odd. I tried it here and it doesn't fail -- same openjade version.
>> Maybe mine is patched.

> It's not likely an issue of how OpenJade was compiled; there has been
> a limitation in how SGML parsing was configured. If you poke around
> in /usr/share/sgml, you should find some configuration indicating
> NAMELEN was set to 44.

On a Fedora 13 machine:

$ grep -r NAMELEN /usr/share/sgml/
/usr/share/sgml/openjade-1.3.2/style-sheet.dtd: ArcQuant CDATA #FIXED "NAMELEN 64"
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-3.0-1.0-50.fc13/docbook.dcl: NAMELEN 256
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-3.0-1.0-50.fc13/cals-tbl.dtd: NOTE: This set of declarations assumes a NAMELEN of 32 as is used in
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.4-1.0-50.fc13/docbook.dcl: NAMELEN 256
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets/dtds/dbdsssl/dbdsssl.dtd: ArcQuant CDATA #FIXED "NAMELEN 64"
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets/dtds/decls/docbook.dcl: NAMELEN 44
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-3.1-1.0-50.fc13/docbook.dcl: NAMELEN 256
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-3.1-1.0-50.fc13/cals-tbl.dtd: NOTE: This set of declarations assumes a NAMELEN of 32 as is used in
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.1-1.0-50.fc13/docbook.dcl: NAMELEN 256
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.1-1.0-50.fc13/cals-tbl.dtd: NOTE: This set of declarations assumes a NAMELEN of 32 as is used in
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.2-1.0-50.fc13/docbook.dcl: NAMELEN 256
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.5-1.0-50.fc13/docbook.dcl: NAMELEN 256
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.79/dtds/dbdsssl/dbdsssl.dtd: ArcQuant CDATA #FIXED "NAMELEN 64"
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.79/dtds/decls/docbook.dcl: NAMELEN 44
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.3-1.0-50.fc13/docbook.dcl: NAMELEN 256
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.0-1.0-50.fc13/docbook.dcl: NAMELEN 256
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.0-1.0-50.fc13/cals-tbl.dtd: NOTE: This set of declarations assumes a NAMELEN of 32 as is used in
/usr/share/sgml/html.dcl: NAMELEN 72 -- somewhat arbitrary; taken from

It's hard to tell from this exactly which value is active in what
contexts, but it does look like 44 is relevant in some. FWIW,
I don't see the reported failure on this machine ...

regards, tom lane

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