Re: SGML on functions

On 29 August 2010 20:12, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On fre, 2010-08-27 at 21:57 +0100, Thom Brown wrote:
>> I've also noticed that a lot of the <screen> contents are indented as
>> part of the markup, but when output in HTML, each space it recreated
>> as it ends up in either <code> or <pre> tags.
>>
>> <programlisting> contents seem to have been intentionally entered so
>> that they break with the indenting style so they're output correctly.
>> Shouldn't tags such as <screen> follow the same style so that they can
>> also avoid unintentional leading whitespace?
>
> I don't really know what you mean here.  Do you have an example?

Yes, although it appears to have been resolved in 9.0's documentation:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/libpq-connect.html

Compare to..

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/libpq-connect.html

The part in question is the line after which it says "Makes a new
connection to the database server".

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