Re: About the docs

Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tools.aap.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> * Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> [Jul, 31 2003 20:30]:
> >
> > I just found out the changes are not backwards compatible.  In SGML I
> > was using:
> >
> > 	<colspec colwidth='1.5in'>
> >
> > In XML it gives an error, the tag must be terminated, thus I changed it to:
> >
> > 	<colspec colwidth='1.5in'/>
> >
> > But that is (unexpectedly) not accepted in SGML.  There might be more
> > problems, I didn't try fixing all errors that were reported for the XML
> > version (most were for using </> instead of a real tag closing).
> >
> XML elements must be terminated, hence the /> at the end.  Also, values
> must be enclosed in double-quotes ("), not single-quotes (') or nothing
> at all.  Also, you may try to put a space between the quote and the
> terminator (/>)
> so:
> 	<colspec colwidth="1.5in" />
> this should be the most compatible, but not sure if it is accepted by
> certain SGML parsers...

Tried all that, but it seems nothing is accepted as valid SGML by jade.
That almost appears to be a bug, in my opinion the "/>" should be
accepted.

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