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Re: Lets be careful with those XML submissions to the RFC Editor

2007-11-27 01:21:23
On 2007-11-25, at 23:51, ext Paul Hoffman wrote:
They still should (strongly) consider checking the validity of the XML by comparing it to what the IESG approved.

I agree with Paul. The IESG approves the text version of a draft, so the text version is definitive.

Making the XML available to the RFC Editor is for their convenience *only*.

The submission system should run xml2rfc on any submitted XML, compare the generated to the submitted text version, and yell if they aren't identical.

(If we want to get more complicated, the submission system could offer a "submit anyway" option, which should raise a flag to the RFC Editor that means "check XML against text version manually.")

Lars

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