Re: XML and empty line (DocBook)

[Simon Pepping <spepping@scaprea.hobby.nl>]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 09:58:35PM +0200, Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Using 2002.7.12 I found the problem that
> 
>      <title>Apache
>      <filename>mod_rewrite</filename>
> 
>      magic</title>
> 
> causes the problem with the empty line ( = \par ) any idea how to prevent
> this problem (except by editing the XML source)?
>   ! Paragraph ended before \XMLDBdotitle was complete.
>   <to be read again>
>                      \par

Even in XML mode two blank lines generate a \par. I cannot solve this;
perhaps Hans knows a way out.

Both this and your previous problem (and Michael's answer to it) show
that TeX has no knowledge of ignorable white space. It cannot, because
it does not know the DTD. (Ignorable white space is all white space in
elements that do not have mixed content.)

> Addionally I get frequently a ']¿' at the beginning of my documents.

I believe this is another parsing problem with the internal DTD
set. (AFAIK you should get '¿]' from '>]' in the document.

Regards, Simon

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Simon Pepping
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