Re: [Boost-docs] [Quickbook] No longer able to build the regex docs?

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] [Quickbook] No longer able to build the regex docs?
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-06-21 08:28:05

>> It's producing invalid xml for =\<= in syntax_perl.qbk, which causes
>> the post-processor to fail (it requires valid markup).
>
> OK, I just removed the support for escapes in simple markup. I never
> noticed before that if you use \<, \>, \& in quickbook it doesn't xml
> encode them. I guess that might be deliberate, but it doesn't feel
> right to me. But that isn't something that should be changed without a
> version switch (as this problem demonstrated).

Thanks for the fix!

Not XML escaping \< etc seems like an out and out bug to me, the only time 
one would want those to appear as literals is if you've escaped to Docbook.

Ah wait... after your fix, then the "=\<=" used in the regx docs *is* 
correctly escaped.  BTW the regex library appears to be the only 
documentation effected by this.

Thanks, John.