RE: Updated xml2rfc

["David B Harrington" <ietfdbh@comcast.net>]

Hi,

No, the current document does not have Bert's proposed style. 

The include directive is an xml2rfc directive. The DTD requires child
<reference> clauses within the <references> clause, so substituting
Bert's style leads to an invalid XML file. If you use an
XML-validating editor, such as XMLSpy, the file will fail the
validation. Since we don't know which editors will be used by MIB
document editors, I think we should only provide a template that is
valid according to the DTD. I apparently need to ask the xml2rfc team
to modify the DTD.

I also haven't had a lot of luck getting xml2rfc to resolve to the
XML-LIB environment variable, but I spent more time resolving and
testing the other requested fixes than worrying about this.

If you want to experiment with this format and find a way to make it
valid, then I'll be happy (really happy) to move to the
simpler-to-read-and-write syntax.

David Harrington
dbharrington@comcast.net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mreview@ops.ietf.org 
> [mailto:owner-mreview@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf Of Glenn Waters
> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 1:53 PM
> To: dbharrington@comcast.net; Mreview (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: Updated xml2rfc
> 
> Maybe I'm not ready the XML correctly but I don't see the reference
> style that Bert suggested. Am I not reading this right?
> 
> Thanks, /gww 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-mreview@ops.ietf.org
[mailto:owner-mreview@ops.ietf.org]
> On
> > Behalf Of David B Harrington
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 13:07
> > To: 'Mreview (E-mail)'
> > Subject: Updated xml2rfc
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > A new experimental version of xml2rfc is available online at
> > http://xml.resource.org/experimental.html
> > 
> > It is being updated to meet some of the rfc2223bis 
> requirements. There
> > is a directive to use the rfceditor style: <?rfc
rfcedstyle="yes">,
> > and it handles some issues such as when to use two spaces, 
> whether to
> > capitalize "this" in a section header, how to spell 
> acknowledgements,
> > etc. to meet the style choices of the RFC Editor.
> > 
> > It allows appendices before the references, and moved 
> Author's Address
> > to just before the IPR statement. The References sections are
still
> > numbered (which looks really weird with appendices in the 
> middle. ;-)
> > 
> > I updated my template and tested this version. See what you think
> > about this output?
> > 
> > David Harrington
> > dbharrington@comcast.net
> 
> 
>