[xml2rfc] shorter refs to i-ds

[[e-mail] (Graham Klyne)]

A maybe simpler suggestion:  if the reference tag is longer than some 
length (say 12-16 chars), wrap the following text to a new line?

E.g.

[[
    [I-D.ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3]
                    Gupta, M. and S. Deering, "IP Version
                    6 Addressing Architecture", draft-
                    ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-11 (work in
                    progress), October 2002.

    [RFC2434]       Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand,
                    "Guidelines for Writing an IANA
                    Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP
                    26, RFC 2434, October 1998.
]]

(I'm guessing that most I-D refs will become RFCs in the lifetime of a 
draft, so any problem sort-of dissipates.)

#g
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At 04:45 PM 11/10/02 -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> >> - provide a way of mapping the anchor strings within the main
> >>   document, e.g.,
> >>     <?rfc anchormap='%I-D\.ietf-(*)%\1%'?>
> >>   which would give you
> >>     [ipngwg-addr-arch-v3]  Gupta, M. ...
> >
> > so, do you want me to implement the regexp-based subsitution
> > mechanism?
>
>well, let's see if anyone else is enamoured of it.  i hate to create
>work that has narrow use.
>
>randy
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