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

["David R. Oran" <[e-mail]>]

On 20 Jan 2020, at 15:10, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> You should simply remove "<!DOCTYPE rfc SYSTEM 'rfc2629.dtd'>" if your
> <rfc/> element contains the "version='3'" attribute.
>
If I do that xml2rfc crashes (both the one on my machine and the web tool:

xml2rfc draft-oran-icnrg-reflexive-forwarding.xml
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/xml2rfc", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xml2rfc/run.py", line 612, in main
    xmlrfc = parser.parse(remove_comments=False, quiet=True, add_xmlns=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xml2rfc/parser.py", line 548, in parse
    for action, element in context:
  File "src/lxml/iterparse.pxi", line 208, in lxml.etree.iterparse.__next__ (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:148588)
  File "<string>", line 22
lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: Attribute xmlns:xi redefined, line 22, column 59

> Regards,
>
> 	Henrik
>
> On 2020-01-20 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.
>>
>> If I leave off the “version=‘3’, 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
>> 		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
>> 		Error: Unable to validate the XML document:
>> draft-oran-icnrg-reflexive-forwarding.xml
>> 		 <string>: Line 23: No declaration for attribute xmlns:xi of element
>> rfc
>> 		 <string>: Line 25: Element front content does not follow the DTD,
>> expecting (title , author+ , date , area* , workgroup* , keyword* ,
>> abstract? , note*), got (seriesInfo title author author date area
>> workgroup keyword keyword abstract )
>> 		 <string>: Line 81: Element section content does not follow the DTD,
>> expecting ((t | figure | texttable | iref)* , section*), got (name t )
>> 		 <string>: Line 81: Element section does not carry attribute title
>> 		 <string>: Line 81: No declaration for element name
>> 		 <string>: Line 85: Element section content does not follow the DTD,
>> expecting ((t | figure | texttable | iref)* , section*), got (name t )
>> 		 <string>: Line 85: Element section does not carry attribute title
>> 		 <string>: Line 85: No declaration for element name
>> 		 <string>: Line 94: Element section content does not follow the DTD,
>> expecting ((t | figure | texttable | iref)* , section*), got (name t
>> section section )
>> 		 <string>: Line 94: Element section does not carry attribute title
>> 		 <string>: Line 94: No declaration for element name
>> 		 <string>: Line 97: Element section content does not follow the DTD,
>> expecting ((t | figure | texttable | iref)* , section*), got (name t
>> table )
>> 		 <string>: Line 97: Element section does not carry attribute title
>> 		 <string>: Line 97: No declaration for element name
>> 		 <string>: Line 98: No declaration for attribute keepWithNext of
>> element t
>> 		 <string>: Line 99: No declaration for element table
>> 		 <string>: Line 99: No declaration for attribute title of element
>> table
>>
>> Clue bat please?
>>
>> DaveO
>>
>>
>>
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DaveO