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

["Martin Thomson" <[e-mail]>]

The XML in question is produced from kramdown, but you can see the input here:

https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/compare/contributors?expand=1

This expands into pretty much what you see below.

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019, at 12:39, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
> 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
> 
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