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

[Phillip Hallam-Baker <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:08 AM Andrew G. Malis <[e-mail]> wrote:

> > The XML2RFC markup requires me to make edits in three different places
> > to do references. Using Word as my source editor, I only put the
>
> No, it does not. Two places.
>
> The insertion of the second one could indeed be automated, but then you
> would have to give a hint about normative vs informative.
>
>
> Kramdown makes it very easy. All you need is to put, for example,
> {{!RFC2119}} for a normative reference or {{?RFC6241}} for an informative
> reference in the right place in the text. Everything else is automatic.
> I-Ds are also just as easy, for
> example {{!I-D.ietf-detnet-data-plane-framework}}.
>

That is exactly how I used to do it in Markdown. I changed to a more
XML-ish markup because I was editing a lot of JSON and you really want your
editing markup to use a different set of braces to your code.

Double braces could be the answer though because it is not legal C, JSON or
any other encoding that comes to mind.