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

On 1 June 2011 06:36, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> It looks like the original DocBook distribution has a limit of 44, but
> someone patched it to 256 on your installation.
>
> But it seems like no one else has seen this problem yet, so it's quite
> suspicious, since surely people have built the documentation in the last
> few months.
>

The relevant value on my machine seems to be:

/usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.2/docbook.dcl:81: NAMELEN 44

This file belongs to the Gentoo package app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd
4.2-r2, which is the current stable version for the 4.2 slot.

I would hazard to suggest that nobody else is seeing this problem
because I'm the only one building the docs on Gentoo =)

Still, the 44 character limit does seem to be per the upstream
distribution, and the identifier I patched above is the first one to
violate it. Are there any solid reasons we shouldn't just comply with
it?

Cheers,
BJ