Re: [rfc-i] v3 transition and datatracker

Paul Kyzivat <pkyzivat@alum.mit.edu> Wed, 18 September 2019 16:50 UTC

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On 9/18/19 12:36 PM, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> On 2019-09-18 18:29, Paul Kyzivat wrote:
>> On 9/18/19 10:48 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:
>>>
>>> One of the authors in CELLAR who is using XML v3 says:
>>>
>>>>    I tried with FFV1 version 4 but don’t see a difference. At
>>>>    https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-cellar-ffv1-v4/
>>>>    <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-cellar-ffv1-v4/> in the XML
>>>>    link you can see the svg data in the XML but the HTML and PDF links show
>>>>    the ASCII art rather than the SVG and the <sourceblock> sections have
>>>>    their line returns stripped. So I don’t see any difference here since I
>>>>    last posted FFV1 version 0,1,3 on September 6th.
>>>
>>> It seems that we ought to be generating the HTML and PDF from the v3 using
>>> XML2RFC directly rather than going XML->TXT->HTML{->PDF}.
>>
>> As I noted previously, having the HTML output match the plaintext output
>> line for line is a valuable feature. I would hate to see this regress.
>>
>> I realize that this also loses some of the attractiveness of the HTML.
>> Maybe there is a need for two different HTML versions.
> 
> That is the path I've taken when I worked on the code earlier today.
> I plan to add a new link to the v3 HTML version, and keep the htmlized
> link, but re-label it 'htmlized'.

Yes, that would be great!

	Thanks,
	Paul
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