Re: In support of symbolic references

[Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org>]

Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf at mit.edu> writes:

> Hi.  I'm sitting here reviewing changes to a document to see if I can
> last call it.
>
> As part of a response to AD review comments, one of the references
> were changed.  This document uses numeric references.  Starting at
> reference 16, everything was renumbered.  That makes the diff a pain.
>
> For this and many other reasons, I strongly encourage people to avoid
> numeric references in their documents.

That makes sense, but I believe the default for the xml2rfc tool is to
produce numeric references.  Does xml2rfc support symbolic references?
If the defaults in xml2rfc is changed to symbolic references, I think
we'd see that a lot of documents would adopt the new approach.

/Simon

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