Re: xml2rfc improvements

Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net> Tue, 20 June 2006 23:48 UTC

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> I specifically don't think that trying to emulate version control
> features in a document format is worth spending effort on.

+1

(However I could imagine that it would be helpful to have aa structured comment
construct, such as adding date/time attributes, so the comment could explain
what follows and when it was made.  The diff mechanism will then display this.)

d/

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