Re: [HACKERS] Uppercase SGML entity declarations

On 04.04.2011 18:37, Tom Lane wrote:
> AFAIK, the main stumbling block for that is that XML doesn't allow
> abbreviated close tags (ie,<foo>whatever</>). Which is something that
> we are not likely to give up. So I'm not sure of the point of changing
> something as trivial as entity declaration casing. You're going to end
> up having to fork the documentation anyway, or at least feed it through
> an SGML to XML converter. So why not fix the entity casing then?

Tom,

Honestly, for German I don't mind yet if it is XML or SGML. XML might
be better in future for maintenance tools.

Anyway, I figured out there is another argument for XML:

My information is that DocBook 5.0 won't support SGML anymore.

Which means - sooner or later a reaction is needed.

Susanne
P.S.:
Btw. I change <foo>whatever</> into <foo>whatever</foo> when it
is in the parts which I am translating because my emacs indent don't
like </>.

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