On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:26:18 -0000, Dave Korn wrote: > ----Original Message---- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Joshua Daniel Franklin > Sent: 23 February 2005 14:25 > > >> 2) What's with the CDATA section ? > > > > A CDATA section is for enclosing text that might otherwise be interpreted > > Yeh, I knew that! I meant "How come it appears in the man page?" > > >> When I look at the generated manpage in info or man, the opening > >> <![CDATA[ tag is displayed, but the closing ]]> tag has disapperared. I > >> think it's probably not meant to be this way? > > > > How are you generating man pages from that DocBook example? There is a way > > to get man pages from <refentry> I think, but we don't use it for > > Cygwin. I just wrote > > a hacked-up perl script to turn utils.sgml into man pages. > > I'm not generating man pages myself; I was just looking at my installed > man and info pages, from . Looks like there was a bug in your script!
Yep, it's a bug... no wait, it's a feature! I, uh, purposefully did it to teach people about XML. I've updated cygpath and utils.sgml in CVS and the website, and I'll be putting together a new version of cygwin-doc soon: <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#cygpath> Thanks for the catch, Raul, usage now indicates acceptance of multiple file names in the standard GNU [NAME...] form. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/