Re: [rfc-i] deprecating relref

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Fri, 09 April 2021 07:18 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rfc-i] deprecating relref
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Am 09.04.2021 um 06:41 schrieb Carsten Bormann:
> On 9. Apr 2021, at 02:20, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@mozilla.com> wrote:
>>
>> Therefore our recommendation is to deprecate
>> relref in 7991bis
>
> +1
>
>> and likely add some or all of the relref attributes to
>> xref.
>
> De facto v3 already has those attributes, and I hope we can simply stick to those, specifically:
>
> section
> sectionFormat (of, comma, parens, bare)

Yes. These were proposed during the developmen of 7991 (and I believe at
some point in an unreleased draft), but later replaced by <relref>.

> Usage in published RFCs so far:
>
>   336 sectionFormat=“bare"
>   391 sectionFormat=“comma"
> 42726 sectionFormat=“of"
>     1 sectionFormat=“parens”
>
> The value for sectionFormat=“of” is inflated as this is the default value, I think I'm only seeing 2215 actual section references in total, so it should really be 1487.

Inserting the "sectionFormat" default when indeed no section is
referenced IMHO is a bug in the preptool.

> ...

Best regards, Julian
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