Re: [Tools-discuss] idnits 2.16.02 counts line length using bytes and not characters (but xml2rfc 2.34.0 line-wraps counting chars, not bytes)

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[e-mail]>]

On Mon 2019-11-04 22:07:00 +0100, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:

> Agreed.  A rewrite of idnits which will do better in this respect is
> in progress.

great, thanks!

By the way, the incluson of UTF-8 characters has been really helpful for
this specific draft, as it permits pretty diagrams of MIME structure
that would be tedious to explain in text, or harder to follow visually
if we left out edges between parent and child nodes.

I really appreciate the work that goes into modernizing the IETF toolchain
to permit these improvements.

My only regret is that the htmlizer on tools.ietf.org seems to work from
the uploaded .txt variant, rather than building the html directly from
the .xml source.  "xml2rfc --html --v3" produces a document that is
*much* nicer to read (and better structured from an HTML point of view)
than the htmlized txt source.

Is there any plan to generate the HTML from the uploaded xml in this way
for future documents?

   --dkg