Re: [Tools-discuss] question on datatracker access to particular I-D version

[Tony Hansen <[e-mail]>]

ah, excellent. I thought I had tried that particular variation, but I
guess I didn't.

Thanks!

    Tony

On 7/19/15 7:11 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> It seems to me that there's a bug.
>
> Go to https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf/02/
>
> The links for html and pdf formats bring up the -02 version, as expected.
> The link for txt format brings up the latest version.
>
> Regards
>    Brian
>
>
> On 19/07/2015 22:49, Tony Hansen wrote:
>> I'm working on generating bibxml3 (bibxml for internet drafts) via
>> django and the datatracker database.
>>
>> Is there a way to pull up a >particular version< of an I-D on the
>> datatracker via the URL?
>>
>> That is, URLs such as
>>
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf-02
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf?version=02
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf-02.txt
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf/02
>>
>> as opposed to
>>
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf
>>
>> which pulls up the final document and lets you get at the earlier
>> versions after additional clicks.
>>
>>
>>     Tony Hansen
>>
>> Full discussion:
>>
>> I'm also looking at the possibility of making an update to remove the
>> <format> entries and replacing them with a target on the <reference>
>> element.
>>
>> I had *thought* that I could do this using a reference to the
>> datatracker copy of the internet drafts. But there is an issue.
>>
>> For each internet draft, e.g. draft-ietf-example-foo-*, there are at
>> least two entries:
>>
>>     reference.I-D.draft-ietf-example-foo-00.xml       
>>     reference.I-D.ietf-example-foo.xml
>>
>> That is, there is a specific entry for each version of the document with
>> the complete name of the document and version, PLUS a single entry for
>> the document >series< that does not have any version number or the
>> leading "draft-" prefix. This last entry is updated whenever a new
>> version is created
>>
>> Picking a draft at random, and doing an ls -l on its variants shows this:
>>
>> -r--r--r-- 1 tony tony      986 Jun 26  2014
>> reference.I-D.draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf-00.xml
>> -r--r--r-- 1 tony tony     1096 Jul 21  2014
>> reference.I-D.draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf-01.xml
>> -r--r--r-- 1 tony tony     1089 Jul 22  2014
>> reference.I-D.draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf-02.xml
>> -r--r--r-- 1 tony tony      982 Oct 27  2014
>> reference.I-D.draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf-03.xml
>> -r--r--r-- 1 tony tony      982 Jan 23 00:00
>> reference.I-D.draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf-04.xml
>> -r--r--r-- 1 tony tony      983 Feb 17 00:00
>> reference.I-D.draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf-05.xml
>> -r--r--r-- 1 tony tony     1089 Mar  9 00:00
>> reference.I-D.draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf-06.xml
>> -r--r--r-- 1 tony tony     1090 Mar 25 00:00
>> reference.I-D.draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf-07.xml
>>
>> -r--r--r-- 1 tony tony     1090 Mar 25 00:00
>> reference.I-D.hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf.xml
>>
>>
>> Currently the document series entry is always identical to the
>> largest-numbered entry.
>>
>>
>> The relevant bits of one of these files (-02) for this discussion are:
>>
>> <reference anchor='I-D.hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf'>
>>     <seriesInfo name='Internet-Draft'
>> value='draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf-02' />
>>     <format type='TXT'
>> target='http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf-02.txt'
>> />
>> </reference>
>>
>> I could certainly do a direct move of the existing target so that we get
>>
>> <reference anchor='I-D.hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf'
>> target='http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf-02.txt'>
>>     <seriesInfo name='Internet-Draft'
>> value='draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf-02' />
>> </reference>
>>
>> But that doesn't use the datatracker like I wanted.
>>
>> I could make the document series entry different from the
>> individual-document entry, as in:
>>
>> <reference anchor='I-D.hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf'
>> target='http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf'>
>>     <seriesInfo name='Internet-Draft'
>> value='draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf-07' />
>> </reference>
>>
>>
>>
>> But I don't know of any way to pull up a particular version of the I-D
>> on the datatracker via the command line. That is, URLs such as
>>
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf-02
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf-02.txt
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf/02
>>
>> So, unless I can find a way to reference the individual version of a
>> document on the datatracker, the individual-document entries would need
>> to continue using the www.ietf.org/internet-drafts URL instead of a
>> datatracker URL.
>>