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

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

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.

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.

Cheers,
Martin