RE: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Formatin AdditiontoASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

["Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker at verisign.com>]

> From: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke at gmx.de] 

> > XML2RFC once made me miss a draft deadline by choking on some XML I 
> > wrote without saying why or where, leaving me with an impossible 
> > debugging task. Formatting drafts in vi may take longer on average 
> > than working with xml2rfc but it's more deterministic.
> 
> AFAIK, XML2RFC diagnostics have been enhanced a lot lately. 
> And, if it's an XML wellformedness/validity issue, running 
> the document through a standard XML processor should help, too.
> 
> Best regards, Julian

Whatever the output format it should be very easy to modify XML2RFC to generate it.

To generate PDF I have to do a lot more work.


Perhaps what we should do is to publish the XML2RFC source of RFCs that have it in the same way that the PDF and PS are published.


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