Re: xml2rfc improvements

[John C Klensin <john-ietf at jck.com>]

--On Tuesday, 20 June, 2006 19:48 -0400 Dave Crocker
<dhc2 at dcrocker.net> wrote:

>> I specifically don't think that trying to emulate version
>> control features in a document format is worth spending
>> effort on.
> 
> +1
> 
> (However I could imagine that it would be helpful to have aa
> structured comment construct, such as adding date/time
> attributes, so the comment could explain what follows and when
> it was made.  The diff mechanism will then display this.)

I think that is more or less what I was suggesting, along with
variations on that theme.  I have never thought of that as
either a variation on, or replacement for, version control
approaches.

     john




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