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

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Wed, 10 July 2019 17:00 UTC

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From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
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Subject: Re: On XML and $EDITORs (Re: Things that used to be clear (was ...)) "Living Documents") side meeting at IETF105.)
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On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 12:52:16PM -0400, Keith Moore wrote:
> On 7/10/19 12:31 PM, Nico Williams wrote:
> 
> > > would be nice if there were a standard format we could use, but I
> > XML is standard;
> 
> Ah.  That explains why every time I try to write a new RFC, the required
> format has changed in an incompatible way.

Schema and encoding are different things.

The xml2rfc schema is a standards work in progress.

> Presuming that XML is good for something, I'm not actually sure what it
> is.   It's not good for user input.    It's not a good final-form document
> format.  It's not good as an intermediate format for WYSIWYG editors.  

Can I get you to try LyX?  :)

Nico
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