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[xml2rfc] Low priority bug - bad date input

"David R. Oran" <daveoran@orandom.net> Thu, 05 May 2022 13:18 UTC

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From: "David R. Oran" <daveoran@orandom.net>
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Subject: [xml2rfc] Low priority bug - bad date input
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I mistakenly typed the year “2016” into the date field for a draft update and it crashed xml2rfc rather than reporting an input error:

oran@ORAN-M-51B7 icn-pathsteering % xml2rfc --text --pdf --html draft-oran-icnrg-pathsteering-06.xml
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/xml2rfc", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xml2rfc/run.py", line 739, in main
    xmlrfc.tree = prep.prep()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xml2rfc/writers/preptool.py", line 216, in prep
    tree = self.dispatch(self.selectors)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xml2rfc/writers/base.py", line 1925, in dispatch
    func(e, e.getparent())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xml2rfc/writers/preptool.py", line 419, in check_attribute_values
    if i and not i.isdigit() and not i==self.get_attribute_defaults(c.tag)[a]:
KeyError: 'year'
oran@ORAN-M-51B7 icn-pathsteering %

DaveO

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