Re: An I-D experiment (Re: HTML better for small PDAs)

["Marshall T. Rose" <mrose+mtr.netnews at DBC.MTVIEW.CA.US>]

> A premise behind the formatting rules for IETF documents is that they are
> easy to create and easy to read.  As popular as XML is in the minds of the
> technical community, there are few tools for creating it and little
> widespread use of it.
>
> So far.

dave - i think this is one of those ymmv things. i know a lot of people who
do a lot of xml input using wysiwyg editors. rfc 2629 listed a couple of
tools from a couple of years ago, there are a lot more out there now. in
other words, i politely question the basis for your assertion above.

for myself, i use emacs simply because i can use it to edit all kinds of
files on all kinds of systems. this is a trade-off from having xml-specific
support, but that's okay.

finally, for those folks who are using the rfc2629-based tool called
xml2rfc: there is a new release available that generates nroff, in addition
to txt (rfc 2223) and html. the reason why it generates nroff is that you
can give that to the rfc-editor along with your txt file and it gives them a
leg up on their editing process - http://xml.resource.org/

/mtr