[rfc-i] extensions for <artwork> and friends

On 2/18/16 7:25 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> in addition to the stuff we're already discussing (indentation,
> <example>, an attribute to trigger insertion of "<CODE BEGINS>"...), I
> have a few other requirements that I'd like to present.
>
> Note that all of these require allowing markup inside <artwork> (and
> friends). Also note that all of these have been implemented in
> rfc2629.xslt as custom extensions.

Doesn't this present problems with "line breaks are preserved in 
artwork"? Once you start adding markup you may need to insert line 
breaks into the xml that shouldn't be in the artwork. (I guess in theory 
you can just make a very long line. But after awhile that becomes really 
annoying.)

	Thanks,
	Paul

> 1) Ability to highlight a part of artwork.
>
> Example: <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc5987.html#rfc.section.4.2>
> (here: bold)
>
> Documentation:
> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2629xslt/rfc2629xslt.html#ext.element.highlight>
>
>
> 2) Ability to make part of artwork the target of a link.
>
> Example:
> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7749.html#grammar.address>, linked
> from <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7749.html#rfc.section.2.2.p.3>
>
> Documentation: none currently, essentially done by allowing a <span>
> element inside <artwork>, and allowing that <span> element to carry an
> anchor attribute.
>
> 3) Ability to style part of artwork for syntax highlighting.
>
> Example: <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7749.html#schema>
>
> 4) Ability to have index entries for things occurring in artwork.
>
> Example: entries in
> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7749.html#rfc.index.A>
>
> 5) Ability to include <xref>s in artwork.
>
> Example: <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7230.html#uri>
>
> 6) Ability to hyperlink within ABNF (and similar types of artwork).
>
> Example: <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7230.html#http.uri>
>
>
> FAQ:
>
> a) Does this interfere with automatic extraction of source code?
>
> No, it does not. The artwork extractor just needs to stick to the text
> content of the element. (Implementation:
> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2629xslt/rfc2629xslt.html#extract-artwork>
>
>
> b) Does this interfere with automatic syntax highlighting through JS (in
> case we want do do that)?
>
> Not necessarily; for instance, <https://github.com/google/code-prettify>
> deals with this properly.
>
> Best regards, Julian
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