[rfc-i] draft-iab-xml2rfc-03, "2.32 <name>"

[paul.hoffman at vpnc.org (Paul Hoffman)]

On 13 Jun 2016, at 0:37, Julian Reschke wrote:

> <https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-iab-xml2rfc-03.html#rfc.section.2.32>:
>
> "The name of the section, note, figure, or texttable. This name can 
> have flow markup such as to make some characters use a fixed-width 
> font, or to include references."
>
> So it allows comments (<cref>), but not, for instance, <em>.
>
> Are we sure that this is the right set of elements to allow?

As sure as we can be. We know that names will appear in section 
headings, and those might be rendered as italics or bold, so allowing 
things like <em> will cause surprise. Thus, allowing reference elements 
plus <tt> seems like the maximal non-surprising set.

--Paul Hoffman