Re: [xml2rfc-dev] <contact> element in <t>

[Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]>]

Hi Martin,

On 2019-12-11 02:13, Martin Thomson wrote:
> Hi Henrik,
> 
> I just tested this new element out in xml2rfc 2.37.0.  I think that there are some bugs to work out.
> 
> I have the following input (in reduced form):
> 
> <t>The following people helped:
> ... (ascii names) ...,
> <contact fullname="Mirja Kühlewind"/>,
> ...
> <contact asciiFullname="Kazuho Oku" fullname="?"/>,
> ...
> </t>
> 
> I don't have Kazuho's real name just yet, so I just added "?" for the moment.
> 
> What I have observed is that the output includes many additional line
> breaks. If I get this right, this is producing a new paragraph break
> for the name included in <contact>. That's not expected.

No, and I haven't seen this here in my tests.  Could you send your XML?

> It also appears to remove the "?" I'm using as a placeholder in this
> example. I can put some Unicode in fullname (for instance, "øøø"
> works fine), but the Japanese text I copied from somewhere failed.
> 
> fullname="投稿者" causes xml2rfc to choke:
> 
>   File "/home/martin/bin/xml2rfc", line 11, in <module>
>     load_entry_point('xml2rfc==2.37.0', 'console_scripts', 'xml2rfc')()
>   File "/home/martin/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/xml2rfc/run.py", line 590, in main
>     writer.write(filename)
>   File "/home/martin/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/xml2rfc/writers/text.py", line 274, in write
>     lines = self.paginate(lines)
>   File "/home/martin/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/xml2rfc/writers/text.py", line 412, in paginate
>     paginated[i].elem.page = page
> AttributeError: 'lxml.etree._Element' object has no attribute 'page'
> 
> I thought that that specific error might be due to placement, but
> moving the text around didn't help.

Interesting.  I haven't seen this in my tests either.  I used Georgian
Mkhedruli though, not Japanese Kanji.  I'll try that tomorrow, fix, and do a
bugfix release.  I see this is related to pagination, so again your XML file
might help debug this.


	Henrik