Re: [TOOLS-DEVELOPMENT] Preview release of Text Submission Converter, id2xml

[Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]>]

Hi Megan,

On 2017-12-19 22:47, Megan Ferguson wrote:
> Hi Henrik,
> 
> Input file: draft-ietf-curdle-ssh-ext-info-15
> id2xml version: 1.4.0
> Issue: “Updates" truncation
> Level: Minor
> Files available: 
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/v3test/draft-ietf-curdle-ssh-ext-info-15.original
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/v3test/draft-ietf-curdle-ssh-ext-info-15.original.xml
> 
> Just an FYI that it looks like there is some trouble translating the
> “Updates” field when it contains a comma-separated list.

Huh.  That's silly and unnecessary.  The tool should handle that better.

I've fixed this in my sources; it will be part of the next release.

Thanks for the alert!


Best regards,

	Henrik

> 
> From .original
> Updates: 4252, 4253, 4254 (if approved) 
> 
> From .xml
> <rfc submissionType=“IETF" docName="draft-ietf-curdle-ssh-ext-info-15.txt" category="std" updates="4254”>
> 
> [Note - this also occurs if there is an “and” before the final value or if there is a different number of updated RFCs.]
> 
> When we removed the commas (as in the following), the xml output was correct:
> 
> Updates: 4252 4253 4254 (if approved)
> or
> Updates: 4252 4253 and 4254 (if approved)
> 
> Translated in xml to:
> 
> <rfc submissionType="IETF" docName="draft-ietf-curdle-ssh-ext-info-15.txt" category="std" updates="4252, 4253, 4254”>
> 
> Note - we get correct output for each of the following:
> 
> Updates: 4252 and 4253
> Updates: 4252 & 4253
> 
> We will continue to manually update the comma-separated versions unless we hear from you that it can be addressed with the tool.
> 
> Happy holidays!
> 
> Megan
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