Re: [HACKERS] Uppercase SGML entity declarations

Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of lun abr 04 16:26:07 -0400 2011:
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> > Excerpts from Gabriele Bartolini's message of lun abr 04 13:18:21 -0400 2011:
> >> Il 04/04/11 18:37, Tom Lane ha scritto:
> >> > 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?
> >> We do it. However, given that the files that have been changed are
> >> edited very rarely, the scope of the patch is limited and compatibility
> >> with SGML is kept, I thought changing this at source level would be
> >> something to propose and submit.
> >
> > Given the lack of objections, I have pushed this patch.  Thanks.
> 
> I think you still need to update Solution.pm to match.

Oops, sorry, done.

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