Re: [xml2rfc-dev] consensus=true warning

Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> Mon, 18 November 2019 02:19 UTC

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On 2019-11-18 03:09, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019, at 10:04, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
>> Right.  I think the schema authors made a mistake in giving this field a
>> default value.
> 
> So you are saying that if I set a value of false explicitly, then you
> are unable to distinguish this from the default AND that this is my
> fault?

?? No, that's not at all what I'm trying to say.  I'm not trying to blame
you at all, in any way.  I'm trying to explain that the warning is there
as a result of having a default value for a field which probably should
not have one, and the preptool phase being required to set that value if
no value has been set.

> Or am I confused.
> 
> Also, where do you get the idea that status="standard" +
> consensus="false" is invalid?  That is always true for a draft.

The schema default values make no distinction between drafts and RFCs.

My preference would be to have a default value for this attribute, as it
causes multiple issues.  Since pretty much every issue I tried to bring
to this list because I saw that it needed change resulted in hours and
hours of interminable discussions, I had to choose between getting the v3
tools out, or sit and discuss forever.  The warning is my way of not
sweeping this issue under the mat.


	Henrik