[xml2rfc-dev] <author> below <section>

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Wed, 27 November 2019 19:58 UTC

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Subject: [xml2rfc-dev] <author> below <section>
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Hi there,

So I was looking at <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8673.xml>, and,
to my huge surprise, found <author> elements below <section>, apparently
generated by the preptool step.

I checked, and this doesn't seem to be documented anywhere (not even
Henrik's implementation notes), but yet it turns up in "canonical XML".

Just to clarify - there are two issues here:

1) The technical issue: adding author information a second time in the
canonical XML does not make any sense to me.

2) The process issue: this isn't documented anywhere, but yet appears in
the so-called "canonical XML".

What is going on here?

Best regards, Julian