Re: [Tools-discuss] New tool: bibxml2rfc

[Henrik Levkowetz <henrik at levkowetz.com>]

On 2008-03-20 19:02 Eric Rescorla said the following:
> At Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:54:35 +0100,
> Henrik Levkowetz wrote:

...

>> If you're off-line,
>> references not in the local cache will be present in the generated
>> files with dummy content, so you can run xml2rfc on the source file
>> without being held up.
> 
> Yes, with two caveats:
> 
> 1. You need to pass -i
> 2. It only does this for I-Ds and RFCs. Other references it doesn't
>    try.
> 
> You are expected to preload the cache with non-ID non RFC references.

Aha.  Right.

>>  If you're on-line, new files will be added
>> to the cache. 
> 
> Yep.
> 
> 
>> Files already in the cache won't be checked for
>> updates (should that optionally be done?).
> 
> Actually, I-Ds are checked for updates unless you pass in 
> '-n'. RFCs aren't checked for updates on the theory that
> RFCs never change. 

Makes sense.  Cool.


	Henrik
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