Re: [Tools-discuss] bibxml3 database reload frequency

[Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]>]

Hi Carsten,

On 2020-08-21 13:36, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> Hi Henrik,
> 
> On 2020-08-21, at 13:25, Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> 
>> The --expand option should avoid these drawbacks.
> 
> That doesn’t do the v2v3 conversion, though, which is needed to make sure that the xml2rfc formatter behind the submission system is run in RFCXMLv3 mode.

Indeed, to force v2v3 conversion (if you have v2 documents), you should use
--v3 --expand.  (The --expand switch is valid for both v2 and v3 documents,
while --prep is valid only for v3, so it implies --v3.)

> Maybe it would be useful to have an option that does all that is
> needed for trouble-free I-D submission, like --preptool does now
> (except that it does too much for the RFC editor, which is however
> mostly not the target for an I-D submission).

That should be --v3 --expand, then.

> Once that is in place, the legend:
> 
>> For v3 .xml sources which include external files, this requires
>> them to be run through xml2rfc with the --prep option, to produce a
>> completely expanded (standalone) .xml source file for upload.

Right; will update.


Regards,

	Henrik

> 
> 
> on https://datatracker.ietf.org/submit/ could be updated to point to that option.
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
> 
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