Re: RFCs should be distributed in XML (Was: Faux Pas -- web publication in proprietary formats at ietf.org

[Andrew Newton <andy at hxr.us>]

On Nov 8, 2005, at 9:25 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> You mean there is nowhere an official statement and we have to guess?

Not that I know of, but I could be wrong.

> > there are many people desiring some of the word processor features
> > (track changes, etc...) that are just not found in the xml authoring
> > tools.
>
> Well, you certainly know that XML is a format, not a program :-) So,
> at least in theory, you could use OpenOffice and still producing 2629
> (providing someone wrote a XSL transformation from OpenDocument to
> 2629). Not obvious, I know, but a possible path.

That is certainly a possibility.  And a good idea.

> For the specific feature you mention, I use version control system
> with XML, I do not see the problem. Tools like Subversion even allow
> you to specify an external diff so you can use a XML-aware diff to see
> the changes.

I too use Subversion and rfcdiff and xml2rfc.  But there are people  
doing work (i.e. writing docs) in the IETF that do not work this  
way.  They may find using a version control system to be time-wise  
expensive or prohibitive, especially compared to emailing track- 
change-docs back and forth.

-andy

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