In message
<ed6d469d0511240917u349654b5g3caeba38f5ee9c9a(_at_)mail(_dot_)gmail(_dot_)com>,
Bill
Fenner writes:
On 11/24/05, Steven M. Bellovin <smb(_at_)cs(_dot_)columbia(_dot_)edu> wrote:
If we adopt some new format, though, I think we
really need the ability to generate diffs of different versions of the
same document.
The solution that comes to mind for diffs is to format the old version
(to text), format the new version, and use the existing tools
(htmlwdiff, rfcdiff, or others). There's no sensible way to do a diff
of a graphic so I think diffing the text form is sensible.
That's certainly one reasonable approach. My concern was if we decided
that PDF was the right way to publish RFCs -- we'd have no easy way to
do diffs, since some people would use XML, some Word, some OpenOffice,
etc.
Put another way, I'm primarily stating a requirement.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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