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

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Sat, 30 November 2019 09:22 UTC

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On 27.11.2019 20:52, Julian Reschke wrote:
> ...

Reported as <https://trac.tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/trac/ticket/460>:

> The preptool mode inserts a back section containing author elements, apparently to give <xref>'s in the generated boilerplate/toc something to link to.
>
> There are multiple issues with that:
>
>     it violates the DRY principle
>     it is not documented anywhere
>     the inserted section is indistinguishable from a regular section - how is a formatter supposed to know when to process it?
>     it adds <author> to the content model of <section>
>
> (tested with 2.35, but there's no "Version" configured here for that)
>
> (see also <​https://github.com/rfc-format/draft-iab-xml2rfc-v3-bis/issues/81> which discusses hiw to style *contributors* sections)

Best regards, Julian