Re: [rfc-i] line wrapping in XML

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
    > When editing a source document (especially Markdown), many people seem
    > to find it best to NOT line-wrap paragraphs, so that diffs (e.g., on
    > GitHub) are minimal; otherwise re-wrapping causes a lot of noise in
    > diffs during the WG process.

Yup.
I like once line per sentence though.
I used to make my XML and my markdown all pretty, but I stopped once I taught
my editor to make it pretty as I type.

    > When an XML document goes to the RFC Editor, it will be line-wrapped
    > (apparently manually). This causes difficulties in creating an XML diff
    > from the source document to the one that's being offered for approval
    > -- something that I feel is necessary, given that XML is now the
    > canonical format.

When you say that they get wrapped, does it just the wrap long lines to
multiple lines, or does it put lines together which are in different
sentences? To take the above paragraph, do we get:

    > When an XML document goes to the RFC Editor, it will be line-wrapped
    > (apparently manually). This causes difficulties in creating an XML diff
    > from the source document to the one that's being offered for approval
    > -- something that I feel is necessary, given that XML is now the
    > canonical format.

or:

    > When an XML document goes to the RFC Editor, it will be line-wrapped
    > (apparently manually).
    > This causes difficulties in creating an XML diff from the source
    > document to the one that's being offered for approval -- something that
    > I feel is necessary, given that XML is now the canonical format.

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