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

[Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]>]

Hi Megan,

On 2017-12-20 03:42, Megan Ferguson wrote:
> Henrik,
> 
> Thank you for the quick turnaround!
> 
> May I add one further request that is not document specific?
> 
> We were discussing the fact that other tools include a comment mentioning the tool 
> of their creation along with the date and time.
> 
> For example, the current xml2rfc output of nroff includes this comment:
> .\" automatically generated by xml2rfc v2.7.0 on 2017-07-13T22:16:35Z
> 
> This would be helpful for our internal processing as we implement id2xml on more and more files.
> 
> Whenever you make your next release (obviously not high priority), would it be possible to add 
> something along those lines?

Oh, certainly.  This is something I find useful, and I can't think why
I haven't already put it in there.  I've added it, and it will be part
of the next release.


Best regards,

	Henrik
  
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Megan
> 
> 
> On Dec 19, 2017, at 2:39 PM, Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
>> 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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