Re: minor warnings/errors when building manual
On 2003-10-02, Todd wrote
> I'm curious if this is some problem with my sgml tools (I have
> linuxdoc-tools-0.9.16-4 as installed with rh 7.3), whether it's nothing to
> worry about at all, or if it's something that should be fixed.
>
> When I run make update-doc i get this:
>
> ...
> /usr/bin/nsgmls:<OSFD>0:895:4:E: no start tag specified for implied empty
> element "P"
> /usr/bin/nsgmls:<OSFD>0:899:4:E: no start tag specified for implied empty
> element "P"
> /usr/bin/nsgmls:<OSFD>0:901:4:E: no start tag specified for implied empty
> element "P"
> /usr/bin/nsgmls:<OSFD>0:904:4:E: no start tag specified for implied empty
> element "P"
> /usr/bin/nsgmls:<OSFD>0:906:4:E: no start tag specified for implied empty
> element "P"
> /usr/bin/nsgmls:<OSFD>0:908:4:E: no start tag specified for implied empty
> element "P"
> /usr/bin/nsgmls:<OSFD>0:910:4:E: no start tag specified for implied empty
> element "P"
> /usr/bin/nsgmls:<OSFD>0:916:4:E: no start tag specified for implied empty
> element "P"
> /usr/bin/nsgmls:<OSFD>0:919:9:E: end tag for "DESCRIP" which is not finished
> ...
>
> Looking at those lines in manual.sgml I see that the tags don't have any
> trailing slash, like they do elsewhere. I patched manual.sgml (attached)
> and the warnings/errors went away. ...
I submitted a similar patch around March this year; it didn't get
included, so I suspect that your version (and my version) of sgml tools
is no longer supported.
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David Ellement