From: TAKAHASHI Masayoshi <maki@...>
Date: 2001-02-28T00:07:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11694] XML format of Programming Ruby

Hello,

I read ri's data and XML'ed Programming Ruby, and I discovered
that these XML is a little strange.

# Of cource I've bought and read "Programming Ruby" already in paper :-)

'<li>' and '<p>' in HTML is not empty element (as usual).
For example,

 <li>one
 <li>two
 <li>three

in HTML means

 <li>one</li>
 <li>two</li>
 <li>three</li>,

and not

 <li/>one
 <li/>two
 <li/>three.

Why the latter is used in Programming Ruby?

# Yes, it may be trivial question. But if 'ri' become standard
# tool for Ruby library reference (and I think it will be so),
# following HTML format is better, IMHO.


TAKAHASHI Masayoshi (maki@inac.co.jp)