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Re: [xml2rfc-dev] [xml2rfc] End of support for xml2rfc on Python 2.x is coming soon

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 20 July 2020 19:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: [xml2rfc-dev] [xml2rfc] End of support for xml2rfc on Python 2.x is coming soon
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On 2020-07-20, at 19:41, Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> wrote:
> 
> The longer answer is that (as indicated below) the default _output_ format
> will change to use the v3 renderer.  xml2rfc will continue to accept v2 input,
> but by default it will send it through the v2-to-v3 converter, and process
> the resulting v3 xml through the v3 formatters.
> 
> If you want to use the v2 formatters directly from the v2 XML, you will need
> to give the --legacy switch to xml2rfc.

Makes a lot of sense to me.
The v2-to-v3 converter seems to work very well, and continuing to support all the XML2RFCv2 files lying around (and still being generated) is the right approach as well.

Thank you, Henrik!

Grüße, Carsten

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