Re: Lets be careful with those XML submissions to the RFC Editor

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

Ned Freed wrote:
> > That's true. But at some point of time, XML source *was* fed into
> > xml2rfc, right?
>
> Sure, but what about things like locally defined entity references? xml2rfc
> handles these but they create an external reference that has to be there
> alongside the main source.

That's why I have been arguing all the time that documents like these 
(non-standalone) should not be allowed to be submitted.

> > I would argue that *that* XML source should be
> > submitted; submitting something that needs additional non-standard
> > preprocessing seems a bit pointless to me.
>
> *That* XML source is still not necessarily self-contained. Indeed, one
> model I've seen people use is to preprocess included materials but not
> the main XML source.
>
> > > Only when the document is finished does it make sense to generate a
> > > self-contained XML source for it.
>
> > I don't agree with that.
>
> Then you need to provide a viable alternative, because what you're 
> suggesting
> isn't compatible with how some people use the tools.

Whatever people feed into xml2rfc can be made stand-alone by running it 
once through an XML parser and reserializing; or be applying an identity 
XSLT transformation.

> > But anyway, if you think it doesn't make sense to generate
> > self-contained XML for each I-D, why submit the non-self-contained XML
> > source at all?
>
> Obviously you don't submit XML source up until that point.

I thought people did and that was a problem. Did I misunderstand something?

BR, Julian

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