Re: [abnf-discuss] Core Rules and References for ABNF: draft-seantek-abnf-more-core-rules-07.txt

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>How is:
>
>	URI = URI@[RFC3986]
>
>more "glopped up" than:
>
>	URI = <URI defined in RFC3986>

It's not.  I want the XML to say something like this:

<abnf name="URI" source="RFC3986" />

and the way it's displayed depends on the output medium.

>If you want to literally include the external ABNF, and have it 
>displayed in the document, then you can use an xml include.

I suppose so, but that's not what I was trying to say.

>But the semantics we are going for here are not that. It is important 
>for the *reader* to understand what is being imported, and from where. 
>If you stick it in the XML then it isn't visible to the reader.

You're making some unwarranted assumptions about the way the XML is
processed.  Most of what's in the XML is visible to the reader.

R's,
John