[rfc-i] draft-iab-xml2rfc-02 - alignment of sourcecode

[jhildebr at cisco.com (Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr))]

On 2/2/16, 3:17 PM, "rfc-interest on behalf of Julian Reschke" <rfc-interest-bounces at rfc-editor.org on behalf of julian.reschke at gmx.de> wrote:



>It depends on what the formatter does with the indentation information.
>
>In any format other than plain text, it can easily style the actual code 
>so that it's clear what's indentation and what's content.
>
>See, for instance: 
><http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7230.html#rfc.section.2.1.p.8>

What I don't understand yet is why you would want to indent different sourcecode elements differently from one another.  Without more explanation, your example above looks to me like a perfectly valid approach for all of your sourcecode elements to be styled that way.  I see the x:indent-with="  " in the XML source, but I don't see how that affected the HTML, which has <pre class="text">?  Can you please walk me through your vision?

>For once, we want the source code, once a tool extracts it from the XML 
>source, to be valid. Right now, this isn't the case for ABNF at least. 
>There's also the case where one puts examples into artwork, and leading 
>whitespace might distort the example (such as when line length is relevant).

I completely understand this point.  This is an argument for getting the default styling, indentation, etc. correct, not (yet) an argument for why you would need different indentation levels for different <sourcecode>'s.

For the record, I also don't see a good use case for sourcecode/@align yet (particularly when you can still use artwork/@align).  I'm open to change my mind with a single half-useful example, though.

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Joe Hildebrand