Re: [xml2rfc] Current xml2rfc produces errors on published RFCs

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 02 August 2021 14:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [xml2rfc] Current xml2rfc produces errors on published RFCs
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On 2021-08-02, at 14:13, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> Which for this specific change means that the "old" documents keep their
> old anchors for appendices, making them inconsistent with newer ones,
> and making it impossible to compute the proper anchor without additional
> information (such as reading the actual XML).

Yes, which might mean that this specific change maybe wasn’t so practical.

Grüße, Carsten