Re: [Emailcore] Navigating 5321bis (and predecessors)

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

Am 09.01.2021 um 23:24 schrieb John C Klensin:
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> --On Thursday, January 7, 2021 10:25 +0100 Alessandro Vesely
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>>> (2) Are there ways that we can mitigate the problems with
>>> finding things. [...]  Would that be worth doing in terms of
>>> finding information or is the table of contents sufficient?
>>> Other ideas?
>>
>> I think an index is useless nowadays, since page numbers are
>> not a univocal reference anymore (they only appear in PDFs and
>> are presumably going to depend on paper formats.)
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> I hope it is sorted out quickly --certainly before 5321bis is
> ready-- but the xml2rfc vocabulary defines index ("<iref>")
> elements which presumably means it is someone's problem (not
> ours) to implement them in a way that is sensible for all
> relevant output formats.  My personal opinion is that will mean
> index entries have to end up targeting section numbers, not page
> numbers, but I wait to see what others come up with.   However,
> unless there is a proposal and community consensus to declare
> that markup element useless and/or obsolete, I think we get to
> assume that they will work in some meaningful way.
> ...

+1, but note <https://trac.tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/trac/ticket/418>
-- index generation currently is broken in xml2rfc (in v3 mode).

Best regards, Julian