On Monday, June 19, 2006 10:05:30 AM +0200 Yaakov Stein <yaakov_s(_at_)rad(_dot_)com>
wrote:
And that's one of the reasons why volunteers maintain xml2rfc (both
the format itself and various implementations).
And here is precisely where we are expending efforts.
I too enjoy coding, but why are we recreating for the XML2RFC
environment
mechanisms that exist in available tools?
"We" aren't expending any effort. The IETF has not spent any resources on
defining the xml2rfc grammar or implementing tools that operate on it. We
haven't formed a working group, spent any meeting time, or done anything to
suggest that people are required to use it.
A few volunteers developed a language and some tools, not in an effort to
define a standard source format, but because they wanted to make life
easier for themselves as document authors. They were kind enough to share
their tools with the community, and other people started using them, and
contributing to their maintenance and development. I find those tools to
be quite useful, as do many other people. Please stop suggesting that
these people are somehow wasting "our" time with their efforts.
-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+(_at_)cmu(_dot_)edu>
Sr. Research Systems Programmer
School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
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