[rfc-i] [IAB] draft-iab-xml2rfc-latest, "2.46.2 "numbered" Attribute"

[ietf at augustcellars.com (Jim Schaad)]

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> From: rfc-interest [mailto:rfc-interest-bounces at rfc-editor.org] On Behalf
Of
> Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 1:33 PM
> To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke at gmx.de>
> Cc: rfc-interest at rfc-editor.org; iab at iab.org
> Subject: Re: [rfc-i] [IAB] draft-iab-xml2rfc-latest, "2.46.2 "numbered"
Attribute"
> 
> > On Jun 28, 2016, at 8:53 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke at gmx.de>
wrote:
> >
> > <https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-iab-xml2rfc-
> 04.html#rfc.section.2.46.2>:
> >
> > "If set to "false", the formatter is requested to not display a section
number.
> The prep tool will verify that such a section is not followed by a
numbered
> section in a part, and will verify that the section is a top-level
section."
> >
> > Define this in terms what is allows, not in terms of what the preptool
does:
> >
> > "A value of 'false' is only allowed on top-level sections that are not
followed
> by any other numbered section".

Is there a reason to limit this to top level sections?  I would think that
this can be true for any section without issues in the resulting output.

Jim

> 
> Do <references> elements count as sections?  They get numbers.
> 
> If so, this means that only the last <section> elements in <back> may be
un-
> numbered.
> 
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> Joe Hildebrand
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