Re: [xml2rfc] Why development version dislikes <!ENTITY RFC2119 PUBLIC ...

[Elwyn Davies <[e-mail]>]

Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 2011-07-26 17:24, Elwyn Davies wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> Should have said draft is
>> http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-irtf-routing-reqs-11.xml
>>
>> I just tried out an old draft that I know contains some unusual 
>> features.
>>
>> Unfortunately it didn't get as far as checking on these.
>>
>> I get a lot of error messages related to entity references:
>> My imported references are in the form
>>
>> *<!ENTITY* RFC3471 SYSTEM
>> "http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.3471.xml"*>
>>
>> The error messages are of the form:
>> *ERROR: Unable to validate the XML document: INPUT
>> Line 1406: IDREF attribute target references an unknown ID "RFC3471"
>>
>> The problem is doubtless that there are a number of different forms for
>> these ENTITY definitions!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Elwyn
>
> That may be an actual bug; my validators do not see any (serious) 
> problems with that source file.
>
> Best regards, Julian
:-)
Well it certainly used to go through earlier versions of xml2rfc! And 
the RFC Editor was happy with it!

The main reason for trying that draft was that it uses a numbered list 
that spans many sections which is a relatively unusual feature.

I know there is already a set of drafts/rfcs as test docs... Do we have 
a document that provides an (arcane) test of as many features as we 
think of?

Maybe the project plan includes a set of automated regression tests of 
this kind - if not I think that would be a useful idea.  Perhaps I ought 
to expand my  example file that I did when I did the xml2rfc tutorial.  
Would that be helpful or has it been done already?

Regards,
Elwyn