[rfc-i] Graphics and XML

julian.reschke at gmx.de (Julian Reschke) Tue, 10 July 2012 15:07 UTC

From: "julian.reschke at gmx.de"
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:07:56 +0200
Subject: [rfc-i] Graphics and XML
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On 2012-07-10 16:57, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2012, at 6:39 AM, Yoav Nir wrote:
>
>> The other problem that keeps coming up is people wanting to add images, graphs and formulas to documents. XML2RFC as it currently stands is just as ill-suited for this as nroff.
>
> Adding an image to an XML document is trivial: you use a stable URL. See draft-hoffman-rfcformat-canon-others for more detail.
> ...

That's a *bit* misleading; it's sufficient to specify the location 
relative to the source text file (or even to inline it as data: URI).

Example: 
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2629xslt/rfc2629xslt.html#rfc.section.12.2>

But yes, a stable, absolute URI would work as well.


Best regards, Julian