Re: On XML and $EDITORs (Re: Things that used to be clear (was ...)) "Living Documents") side meeting at IETF105.)

[Nico Williams <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:33:27AM +0200, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> Using a more human-centric authoring language (markdown, LaTex if that
> rocks your boat) and then translating to XML does introduce the
> occasional error condition where you actually have to look at the XML
> [...]

Just to clarify: TeX very much does not please me, except for the fact
that there are good BUI collaborative editors for it.  My preference is
very much for XML, but with a UI that hides it as well as LyX hides TeX
from the user.

> On the comments about stability:  For a decade, RFCXMLv2 has had the
> advantage that it was relatively stable (defined by a single
> implementation that for most of that period wasn’t hacked much).  That
> advantage is not available for RFCXMLv3.  Authoring formats such as
> markdown might be instrumental in bridging the period of instability.

v3 will have that advantage in a few years :)

Nico
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