between the XML and the final output. If we could agree that the final XML
was authoritative,
What, precisely, do you mean here? Do you mean that there would be NO text
form of an RFC that was authoritative, or do you mean that BOTH the xml2rfc
form and some text-equivalent form (say, .txt or .pdf) would be
authoritative?
The XML is authoritative, the text is derived from it. This presumes that
we improve xml2rfc so it produces text comparable to the stuff we have
now, and has sufficient change control and regression testing that we can
count on future versions of xml2rfc to produce the same output with the
same input.
As I expect you know, multiple forms are quite common in other SDOs. The
ITU typically publishers authoritative PDFs, but also provides Word
documents for people who want to cut and paste.
R's,
John
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