On Fri Apr 6 04:45:51 2007, Bill Fenner wrote:
On 4/5/07, John C Klensin <john-ietf(_at_)jck(_dot_)com> wrote:
... xml2rfc ends up with
symbolic references that look like
[I-D.rfc-editor-rfc2223bis] (one of the less unattractive ones)
or, potentially,
[I-D.draft-narten-iana-considerations-rfc2434-bis]. Those
things cause formatting problems, violate almost every known
style manual about forms for symbolic references, and so on. If
our tools permitted us to use the forms that are recommended in
the rest of the world, such as "[Nart07a]" for the above, it
would be different. But they don't permit doing so conveniently.
I wrote an xsl transform that does this.
I also wrote some XSLT preprocessors that people may (or may not)
find useful.
First, I have a XSL transform that allows me to import references
from the library using any symbolic name I feel like, by adding an
element <dwdrfc-ref anchor="KEYWORDS"
src="bibxml/reference.RFC.2119"/> - this one is handled by:
http://svn.dave.cridland.net/svn/ietf-drafts/rfc2629-noinc.xml
(Which also pulls in any <?rfc include=""?> files too, and strips
away the metadata mentioned below).
Second, I have a reference checking XSL, which simply outputs a
fairly self-explanatory XML document with any reference errors in.
This one uses an additional attribute on xref elements to indicate
Normative references, flagging references where any of the following
is true:
a) There's an xref, but no anchor. (The target doesn't exist).
b) There's a reference, but no xref. (Unused reference).
c) There's a normative reference, but no xref with the dwdrfc-type
attribute set to 'norm'. (Based on a suggestion from the xml2rfc
list, I forget whose idea this was now).
This one is at:
http://svn.dave.cridland.net/svn/ietf-drafts/rfc2629-refchk.xsl
Both use a non-DTD attribute rather than a namespaced one because
otherwise xsltproc emits a namespace declaration even if I've
stripped them out, which seemed to confuse xml2rfc, so I opted for
the "hack that works" instead of a purist view. I make no claims that
they work, or are good, but I find them useful and others are more
than welcome to use them, or cherry-pick ideas. (And yes, no doubt
the XSL is rubbish too).
Dave.
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