Re: [lfs-dev] [blfs-dev] b/lfs books' xml-formatting -vs- patch readability/fragility.

[Bruce Dubbs]

akhiezer wrote:

From: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 12:47:40 -0500

[...]

If the original xml were formatted thus:
====
<screen><userinput>
echo "/opt/llvm3/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf &amp;&amp;
mkdir -v build                           &amp;&amp;
cd       build                           &amp;&amp;

That creates unwanted blank lines on the page.  We do what we can to keep
things readable, but we are constrained by the docbook syntax (and that is

It'd be simple to pre-process the xml, to unwrap the code-related
open/close tags as reqd, prior to feeding it into docbook.


E.g. roughly:

$
#
# todo: perh use sed script instead of tr()s, if hit buffering problems.
#
cat $xmlfile |
  tr '\n' $'\x80' |
  sed -rue 's/(<screen><userinput>)([[:blank:]]*\x80/\1/g' |
  tr '\x80' '\n' |
  docbook_scr ... ;
$

And similarly for the relevant code-related closing tags, if that'd
be reqd.

There are 1300 xml files in BLFS.  We are not going to do that.

  -- Bruce


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