Re: Looking for a grammar/spelling tool for XML I-D

[Nico Williams <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 09:38:42AM +0000, Eric Vyncke (evyncke) wrote:
> The IESG believes that the I-D review (in last call, in IESG telechat,
> ...) could be improved for some documents if the grammar was correct
> and typos absent (and I plead guilty to do typos in my documents).
> Easier said than done of course.
> 
> Most modern word processors have this feature but I know about no
> tools able to do this check on .XML or .TXT...

Well, this isn't what you're looking for, but my now-pretty-much-
abandoned lyx2rfc tool lets you edit I-Ds in LyX, which is a WYSIWYM GUI
editor and has spell checking (though maybe not grammar checking, not
that I recall).

lyx2rfc is/was a hack though -- a working and workable hack, but hacky
anyways -- using custom insets (hack) for xml2rfc metadata and a format
converter/exporter that first converts to LyXML and then uses XSLTs to
convert to xml2rfc (v2) and then xml2rfc to do final rendering.  Better
LyX integration would be nice, but I don't think anyone is going to put
the effort into it.  Still, using LyX is very nice, and the only
downside is the lack of VIM keybindings.

If the tools team wanted to do something truly awesome, it should look
for a suitable, cross-platform, at least free-as-in-$ editor that
supports some sort of structured text and can be extended to do the
kinds of things I did with LyX, then build the necessary integration
with xml2rfc.  LyX might be one such suitable editor.

Nico
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