Re: [xml2rfc] RFC Bibtex format doi numbering incorrect

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 2017-05-28 23:49, John Levine wrote:
> In article <[e-mail]> you write:
>> On 2017-05-28 17:04, John R Levine wrote:
>>> It's easier to parse stuff out of rfc-index.xml in the same directory.
>>> Yes, Julian, there is a doi field.
>>
>> Which makes something that should be easy hard.
> 
> I'm sorry, but this is getting ridiculous.
> 
> Let's say I have a a document with a reference RFC7511 and run it
> through xml2rfc.  Somehow, it will turn that reference into strings
> like "Scenic Routing for IPv6" and "April 1, 2015".  Where do those
> strings come from?
> 
> Wherever they come from, that's where the DOIs come from because
> they're all stored in the same place.  Looking up DOIs is not
> negotiable -- the rules about DOIs are fixed, and not only for the
> IETF.  Please just fix the code.  It's hard to believe that looking up
> one more field from the place where you look up a dozen already would
> be hard.
> ...

I'm not looking them up at all. I maintain an XML2RFC processor which is 
capable of

a) inserting DOIs when they are missing, and
b) checking RFC DOIs when they are present.

Neither should require an access to an external database.

Best regards, Julian