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Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-19 03:50:38
On 03/19/2010 01:49 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
Boggle. A major advantage of xml2rfc compared to HTML is that it does
the numbering for you, and you don't have to manually maintain cross
references.

I don't have any problem editing the source in one window while viewing
the presentation document in another.

(I do. Short version: One window good, two good, three bad, and there's already the email I'm answering and an editor.)

Let me restate your message in unkind terms: "A major advantage of xml2rfc is that it handles the numbering for you. You handle the numbering by opening an extra window." That's unkind phrasing, but hopefully not bad enough to offend. If a tool handles something for me, then I expect not to have to handle that same thing. In my opinion, xml2rfc just changes that problem instead of solving it, and the changed problem isn't noticeably better _for_me_.

It could be solved within xml2rfc, e.g. by having it edit the source and record the number the number there. But xml2rfc doesn't do that now.

(That would also help with the other kind of cross references, "see [19] section 4.2" when [19] is updated. The likelihood that 4.2 is renumbered shrinks, since xml2rfc can warn when it happens.)

Arnt
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