[rfc-i] xml2rfc issue

erik.wilde at dret.net (Erik Wilde) Wed, 03 February 2016 19:10 UTC

From: erik.wilde at dret.net (Erik Wilde)
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 11:10:49 -0800
Subject: [rfc-i] xml2rfc issue
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On 2016-02-03 10:50 , Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> On 03/02/2016 07:43, Erik Wilde wrote:
> ...
>> i found another bug as well: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wilde-registries-00 has links to web pages in the "notes to
>> readers" section at the beginning, but xml2rfc wrongly inserts links to the bibliography, which is actually quite confusing for
>> readers.
> eref has always been strange. There's a work-around for that.
> <t>Please discuss this draft on the apps-discuss mailing list
> (<eref target="https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/apps-discuss"/>).</t>
> <t>Online access to all versions and files is available on GitHub
> (<eref target="https://github.com/dret/I-D/tree/master/registries"/>).</t>

the main problem isn't how the links are formatted. that alone would be 
kind of acceptable. the problem is that they link to something entirely 
different (entries in the draft's references section), and no the URIs 
that are specified in the @target attribute.

cheers,

dret.

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