Re: [xml2rfc] Novice bad user on device, or Catch-22?

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 20.01.2020 21:00, David R. Oran wrote:
> I have a new Internet Draft to write, so I decided to bite the bullet
> and do it in V3. Rather than write in V2 and try the converter, I
> started out right away with V3 syntax. I didn’t get very far. I tried
> both the most recent xml2rfc by installing it on my machine, and the web
> tool and got identical errors.
>
> If I follow the described syntax in RFC7991, the RFC Editor FAQ in
> https://ftp.ripe.net/rfc/v3test/FAQ-2019-02.html and the example in
> draft-hoffman-rfcexamples-latest as below:
>
> |<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?> <!DOCTYPE rfc SYSTEM
> 'rfc2629.dtd'> <?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='rfc2629.xslt' ?>
> <?rfc strict="yes" ?> <?rfc toc="yes"?> <?rfc tocdepth="4"?> <?rfc
> symrefs="yes" ?> <?rfc sortrefs="yes" ?> <?rfc compact="yes" ?> <?rfc
> subcompact="no" ?> <rfc version=‘3’ ipr='trust200902' category='exp'
> submissionType='IRTF' docName='draft-oran-icnrg-reflexive-forwarding-00'
> xml:lang='en' xmlns:xi="https://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <front>
> <seriesInfo name='Internet-Draft'
> value='draft-oran-icnrg-reflexive-forwarding-00'/> <title abbrev='ICN
> Reflexive Forwarding'>Reflexive Forwarding for CCNx and NDN Protocols
> </title> |
>
> I get
>
> |% xml2rfc draft-oran-icnrg-reflexive-forwarding.xml Incompatible schema
> information: found "rfc2629.dtd" in <DOCTYPE> of a version 3 file. |
> ...

That message is indeed not very helpful. First of all, it doesn't say
what to do; and then, it *assumes* what the contents of rfc2629.dtd
might be, without really knowing.

FWIW, you don't need a DTD declaration; just get rid of it (the same was
already true in v2 times).

Best regards, Julian