On 30 Dec 2010, at 11:43, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
wrote:
As a document format, the XML2RFC format is terrible. It uses all the
abominable features of SGML. Rather disappointingly for a format intended for
use by a standards organization it is different to HTML in ways that serve no
purpose other than to prevent the use of widely available tools.
Two key features that xml2rfc provides that HTML does not are automatic tables
of contents and expansion of references from a central bibliography. You seem
to think the latter is at least worth keeping and improving.
One improvement that we could realize with little effort would be to simply
replace the individual entity declaration files for the RFC references with
one great big honking file containing all of them. That way it would only be
necessary to maintain citations in two places rather than three as at present.
It would be much better if the references could be generated automatically
though.
Tony.
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