Re: RFI: debiandoc-sgml V2
Osamu Aoki (debian@aokiconsulting.com) wrote:
> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 01:16:10AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 11:58:51PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > [...]
> > > 3. SGML normalization.
> > >
> > > Normalizing SGML code. For example, <p> ... -> <p> ... </p>.
> >
> > Agree, IMO Debiandoc DTD is too laxist; in order to ease writing parsing
> > tools, it would really help if optional elements were avoided.
>
> I do not understand this ?? Are we thinking same or opposite thing?
>
> As a conten author, I prefer to be sloppy and computer normalizes tags
> for me. I prefer to have single well written tool to normalizes them.
And you're talking about the SGML source itself. Like I said Xemacs+psgml
can do this for you.
> Then other tools can take advantage for parsing.
Well, nsgmls (the tools used to validate and parse the SGML source) doesn't
really care whether the source is normalized. It'll simply add what's
missing by looking at the DTD.
Thanks,
Ardo
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