[rfc-i] v3imp #8 Fragment tagging on sourcecode

[pkyzivat at alum.mit.edu (Paul Kyzivat)]

On 1/23/15 6:04 PM, Nico Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:39:26AM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>> By "work", I think of "is the solution understandable to a typical
>> Internet Draft author", and here things fall apart. It is possible to
>> mark artwork as a fragment; it may not be possible to sanely say what
>> it is a fragment of. Many RFCs have multiple ABNF modules or ASN.1
>> modules, so there would have to be some way to say "this is a fragment
>> of that module" *and* say "and the whole goes in this particular
>> order".
>
> I'd be happy with a mechanism that collates multiple figures into a
> synthetic appendix and which can extract the same.  I'd prefer the
> reverse for authoring, but beggars can't be choosers.
>
> A mechanism that collates artwork wouldn't be difficult to implement in
> XSLT...  Just provide an attribute for naming the file/module/appendix/
> whatever, and an optional attribute for specifying collation order; the
> XSLT to collate that almost writes itself.

For ABNF the order doesn't matter, as long as breaks are between rules. 
And in any case, I don't think presenting in the desired order is such a 
burden. But allowing optional sequence numbers on fragments might be 
helpful occasionally.

	Thanks,
	Paul