Re: Alternative formats for IDs

[Julian Reschke <julian.reschke at gmx.de>]

Ted Faber wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:07:21PM -0800, Dave Crocker wrote:
> > > Equating the XML communities and the xml2rfc communities is not correct.
> > Actually, it is.
> >
> > xml2rfc uses some tailored dtd/xslt files.  They semantics in them is 
> > significant but what is far more important is the xml infrastructure that 
> > is available, in terms of expertise and tools.
>
> The xml2rfc tool that I am familiar with (available from here:
> http://xml.resource.org/ ) formats the text itself, without using
> standard xslt (or dsssl or any standard formatting language).  Unless
> I'm really misreading it, it's a 13,000 line tcl script that does
> all its own text/html/nroff formatting.  I don't think tcl code is an
> XML standard.
>
> I was operating under the assumption that rfc2xml from the above site is
> the program you were talking about.  A system that produces RFC output
> from the xml2rfc markup using only (or even primarily) standard,
> well-supported XML parsing and formatting tools would make the
> communities much more congruent and reap the obvious benefits.   That's
> not the tool I see in operation today. 
> ...

That's correct, in that the only xml2rfc processor that currently 
produces usable ASCII output is the TCL version maintained by MTR and 
Charles Levert.

There are other xml2rfc processors that are useful during the editing 
stage, such as rfc2629.xslt that allows you to open a text editor and a 
browser and basically gives you a nearly instantaneous (depending on 
browser and CPU power) preview of an HTML version of the text.

Best regards, Julian

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