Re: [rfc-i] Handling of large code sections ...

"John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Thu, 26 May 2022 14:33 UTC

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>> Maybe.  We do allow <xi:include href=blah> to import external files, but 
>> there's no way to refer to part of an external file.
>
> IIUC this would be inlined when the document is converted to an RFC. So it 
> isn't a permanent solution.

If you want your RFC to point to an external resource that is not part 
of the document, we call that a reference.

RFCs are archival and there is no way we would publish an RFC whose 
rendering depended on another web page that might or might not still exist 
several years from now.

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