Re: sgml and "empty" closing tags

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: sgml and "empty" closing tags
Date: 2009-11-17 03:44:49
Message-ID: 4B021C31.5070606@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.)
>

Correct on both counts.

cheers

andrew

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