Paul Hoffman / IMC writes:
> At 1:22 PM -0400 9/2/03, Rosen, Brian wrote:
> >2) Ability to cross reference documents
>
> That benefit only appears if all, or a significant proportion, of the
> Internet Drafts are in XML or a similar format. That's not what you
> proposed.
It seems to me that a fairly simple hack could be
consed up to generate HTML or whatever for current
RFC's and drafts given .txt input which automatically
goes the through the references section to make
hyperlinks. In fact that would be a pretty
nifty feature regardless of this debate...
Such hacks already exist
http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/
and work fairly well for the more recent RFCs, which follow a fairly
regular set of formatting rules. But internet-drafts are sufficiently
irregular in format that this approach doesn't seem to work all that well.
And why should you have to guess when you don't have to?
Ned