Re: In support of symbolic references

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb at cs.columbia.edu>]

On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:19:11 +0200
Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 
Use the line

	<?rfc symrefs="yes" ?>

to get symbolic references.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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