Mailing List Archive: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Changes to dfilter2sgml ...

RE: [Ethereal-dev] Changes to dfilter2sgml ...

Aug 27, 2002, 11:40 AM

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[x-posted to ethereal-doc]

Richard,
SGML can have different "declarations" basically enabling or disabling
various language features. IIRC, there is a way to disable the </>
shorthand.
jade will not tolerate silently any non-conformant SGML, so if there's any
problem,
it will complain.

If you want futher info, I can look up my SGML reference docs.

Vassilii

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Sharpe [mailto:rsharpe@ns.aus.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 3:46 PM
> To: ethereal-dev@ethereal.com
> Subject: [Ethereal-dev] Changes to dfilter2sgml ...
>
>
> Hi,
>
> In looking through the differences between dfilter2sgml in
> the docs area
> nd in Ethereal/doc, I notice that one of the big differences
> is that a
> number of closing tags have been compressed to </>.
>
> Does anyone know if this is compatible with SGML?
>
> Regards
> -----
> Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@ns.aus.com, rsharpe@samba.org,
> sharpe@ethereal.com
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RE: [Ethereal-dev] Changes to dfilter2sgml ... [ In reply to ]

Vassilii.Khachaturov at comverse

Aug 27, 2002, 12:03 PM

Post #2 of 3 (7310 views)

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OK, I've refreshed my memories on the SGML std.

> What I want to know is if </> will be compatible with SGML
> infrastructures
> out there. If it is, then I prefer those closing tags. If

It's compatible with generic SGML infrastructures (those that are able
to parse the DocBook DTD and the associated SGML decl. properly).
It is valid as long as SHORTTAG is enabled in the SGML decl.
(And it is - quoting docbook.dcl:
...
FEATURES

MINIMIZE
DATATAG NO
OMITTAG NO
RANK NO
SHORTTAG YES
...) So as long as we use a compliant SGML processing framework,
it should work. And if one wants to export it to a more restrictive syntax
(e.g. XML) it is also very easily done automaticaly with tools like
sgmlnorm.

> not, I will have
> to stick with the full tags.

HTH,
Vassilii

RE: [Ethereal-dev] Changes to dfilter2sgml ... [ In reply to ]

rsharpe at ns

Aug 27, 2002, 1:04 PM

Post #3 of 3 (7332 views)

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On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Khachaturov Vassilii wrote:

> [x-posted to ethereal-doc]
>
> Richard,
> SGML can have different "declarations" basically enabling or disabling
> various language features. IIRC, there is a way to disable the </>
> shorthand.
> jade will not tolerate silently any non-conformant SGML, so if there's any
> problem,
> it will complain.

What I want to know is if </> will be compatible with SGML infrastructures
out there. If it is, then I prefer those closing tags. If not, I will have
to stick with the full tags.

Regards
-----
Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@ns.aus.com, rsharpe@samba.org,
sharpe@ethereal.com