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Re: extension for arbitrary chars in node names


From: Karl Berry
Subject: Re: extension for arbitrary chars in node names
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:38:13 -0500

    > address@hidden name="foo\"bar" node="foo\"bar:.baz"address@hidden    
Description.
    > (Similarly for xrefs, etc.)

    Do we really need the name= and node= parts?  Can't we simply delimit
    the node name with address@hidden and address@hidden (or whateveer else we 
decide to
    use as delimiters)?

Well, I don't think we `need' the param=value stuff.  It would certainly
work to use some <magicstring> as an unambiguous delimiter in the Info
output.  (Although the problem of specifying at the source level when a
node name is given via the new syntax and when in the normal one
remains.)

I just thought it would make for a cleaner and more extensible syntax if
we didn't special-case everything that comes up.  That way, there's a
chance of older versions ignoring new parameters cleanly, etc.




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