Re: [Tools-discuss] Why do we even have text formats any more?

[Russ Housley <[e-mail]>]

Others have already said how important diff is to their work.  Review team members, especially checking whether previous comments were addressed, use diff heavily.  I have a script to run diff locally when I am not online.  The online diff and my script depend on text files.

Russ


> On Jul 28, 2021, at 11:42 AM, Michael Richardson <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> Signed PGP part
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> Martin Thomson <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> I realize that this might be a little inflammatory as far as subjects
>> go, but bear with me.
> 
>> There are probably a few narrow cases where rendering plain text is
>> better than HTML.
> 
> The time when it's nice to have actual .txt files is when writing code, and
> one needs to search for, and then copy and pasting bits of requirement into the code.
> But, if I'm really working on such a document, I can run xml2rfc -o text myself.
> 
>> Here's an alternative: style the HTML so that it looks like the text.  I tried this and it worked shockingly well.
> 
>> Repo: https://github.com/martinthomson/rfc-txt-html
>> Demo: https://martinthomson.github.io/rfc-txt-html/diff.html
> 
>> This isn't perfect, but it seems pretty good to me.
> 
> I agree: it looks great.
> I also agree that we should obsolete the htmlizer.
> 
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