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Re: [xml2rfc] xml2rfc online: references to I-Ds and associated dates

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 12 July 2019 13:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: [xml2rfc] xml2rfc online: references to I-Ds and associated dates
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On Jul 12, 2019, at 15:40, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> That seems to be a rather big change to be introduced without notice.
> 
> I think the first thing that needs to happen is the RFC Style Guide
> would need to say how to handle the format. Right now it says "year
> month”, and this is what tools have been generating for ages.

Well, keeping with the style guide could now be the onus of the author (i.e., author has to delete the day to fulfill the style guide).
I wouldn’t like that too much, as it makes automatically generated references (e.g., from a DOI) harder to use.

Still, I have no idea what the semantics of the style guide are here when the interchange format is XML — the full date might be there, but the formatting tools don’t show it.  What is governed by the style guide?

Grüße, Carsten

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