Re: [Rfc-markdown] [xml2rfc] [xml2rfc-dev] <br> is back, was: New xml2rfc release: v2.32.0

[Sandy Ginoza <[e-mail]>]

Just an additional point on this one.  Henrik has already suggested differently handling — looks like we haven’t implemented yet.  This one is included to show where a <br> could have been useful instead of looking for creative ways to workaround not having it.  


> a) This issue has come up quite a bit when we were trying to update lists/sublists where the authors want no whitespace between the indented items (no bullets; just a line break).  For example, RFC 8668 (v3 files not yet posted) contains the following in the v2 text:
> 
>      L2 Bundle Member Attributes
> 
>         Type:  25
>         Length:  Number of octets to follow
> 
>      Parent L3 Neighbor Descriptor
> 
>         L3 Neighbor System ID + pseudonode ID (7 octets)
>         Flags: 1-octet field of the following flags:
> 
> We were able to replicate this spacing with the following XML, which seems bad because we have empty <dd/> to get the right spacing.  If there is a better way to do this, please let us know. 
> 
> <ul empty="true">
> <li>
> <dl spacing="compact"><dt>L3 Neighbor System ID + pseudonode ID (7 octets)               
> </dt><dd></dd>
> <dt>Flags: 1-octet field of the following flags:</dt><dd></dd>
> </dl>