Re: [Json] Obsoletes RFC 4627

"Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> Fri, 27 September 2013 07:20 UTC

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Cc: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>, JSON WG <json@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [Json] Obsoletes RFC 4627
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On 2013/09/27 15:07, Eliot Lear wrote:
>
> On 9/27/13 8:02 AM, Tim Bray wrote:
>> <wearing-editor-hat>where do “obsoletes” assertions go in the
>> draft?</wearing-editor-hat>
>>
>
> In the header of the document.  If you're using xml2rfc, in the<rfc>
> element as an attribute<rfc obsoletes="4627">  (but you would add it to
> the existing<rfc>.

Or directly from the DTD:

<!ELEMENT rfc         (front,middle,back?)>
<!ATTLIST rfc
           number      %NUMBER;           #IMPLIED
           obsoletes   %NUMBERS;          ""
...

I guess you can still read this, Tim? Not everybody likes DTDs, but 
sometimes, they're actually useful :-).

Regards,   Martin.