Re: [xml2rfc-dev] <artset> feedback

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 10.05.2019 11:16, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
> Hi Julian,
>
> On 2019-05-10 10:46, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> On 09.05.2019 13:24, Julian Reschke wrote:
>>> ...
>>
>> 5. Preptool behavior
>>
>> So the motivation for <artset> is:
>>
>>>     The way <artwork> has been specified to handle the presence of both
>>>     SVG artwork and text fallback (in Section 2.5 of [RFC7991]) has the
>>>     result that any SVG content has to be placed as a data: URL in the
>>>     "src" attribute when an ascii-art fallback is present.  This makes
>>>     the SVG effectively uneditable once the preptool has been run, even
>>>     if the SVG artwork was originally provided as a regular SVG XML file
>>>     external to the document XML file.
>>
>> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-levkowetz-xml2rfc-v3-implementation-notes-08#section-3.1.1>
>>
>> So I was under the impression that the preptool would deal with this by
>> inserting <artset> elements when needed, and I was confused because the
>> documentation doesn't say so.
>>
>> Testing with:
>>
>>> <artwork type="svg" src="rect.svg">
>>> +-+
>>> | |
>>> +-+</artwork>
>>
>> and xml2rfc --v3 however gives:
>>
>>> foo.xml(225): Error: Found <artwork> with both a 'src' attribute and content.  Please use <artset> with multiple <artwork> instances instead.
>>> foo.xml(475): Error: When looking for the name of "     ", got: no such name
>>
>> So something that was perfectly valid before is now a fatal error. Is
>> this intentional or something that is on the todo list?
>
> "Before" meaning at which point in time?  Are you claiming this is valid v2?

Yes. What makes you think it's not?

> ...

Best regards, Julian