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Re: [xml2rfc] Non-determinism (Re: Unable to run xml2rfc --help)

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Mon, 04 January 2021 13:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: [xml2rfc] Non-determinism (Re: Unable to run xml2rfc --help)
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Am 04.01.2021 um 13:54 schrieb Carsten Bormann:
> While it might be a special need to actually compare generated HTML between different runs, but when testing an entire authoring chain, it is a bit unnerving to have changes like
>
> -          <li class="toc ulEmpty compact" id="section-toc.1-1.12">
> +          <li class="ulEmpty toc compact" id="section-toc.1-1.12">
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> between runs that are meant to produce identical output.
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> My python-fu is not sufficient to suggest a way to hide the randomized Python behavior from this output (replace Dictionary by OrderedDict?, but I thought that was the default now since Python 3.7); could somebody else please step in.
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> Grüße, Carsten
> ...

See <https://trac.tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/trac/ticket/553>.

Best regards, Julian

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