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

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Thu, 11 July 2019 17:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: On XML and $EDITORs (Re: Things that used to be clear (was ...)) "Living Documents") side meeting at IETF105.)
From: Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>
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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 13:32:07 -0400
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> On Jul 11, 2019, at 1:24 PM, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 09:41:09AM -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>> But the bigger point here surely, is that this thread is now an editor war.
> 
> Sigh.  That was not my intention, but the opposite.  My point was/is
> that the choice of $EDITOR shouldn't matter, and that our choice of XML
> as the canonical or submission format should not -and DO NOT- preclude
> $EDITORs that hide the XML from the user.

Actually the one thing that xml seems like it might be a decent choice for, is a stable back end interface that could accept input from a variety of editors and text processors and allow RFCs and I-Ds to be handled by a common toolset.  Except that it’s not stable.  

(It’s not a particularly good interface for that purpose, but it doesn’t have to be - the main requirements are that it be adequate and stable.)

Keith

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